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Spotlight | Ghana, Ivory Coast
Accra and Abidjan go separate ways on cocoa as crucial EU regulation looms

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Randy Abbey, head of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Ivorian Conseil Café-Cacao.
Randy Abbey, head of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Ivorian Conseil Café-Cacao. © Francis Kokoroko/Reuters ; Sia Kambou/AFP
Randy Abbey, head of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Ivorian Conseil Café-Cacao.
Randy Abbey, head of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Ivorian Conseil Café-Cacao. © Francis Kokoroko/Reuters ; Sia Kambou/AFP

Three months before cocoa sold in the EU must be guaranteed "sustainable" and of traceable geographical origin, sector regulators in Ghana and Ivory Coast are each going at it alone.

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