Cocoa drops as Ivory crisis cools
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World cocoa prices drop as production in the Ivory Coast resumes following several days of unrest and mob violence.
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Evidence backing the health promoting benefits of chocolate continues to mount bringing dynamism to slacking sales.
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Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers. In 20 years, the country's elephant population has reduced from 40,000 elephants to 6,000.
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Proposals to relax the bans on the trade in elephant ivory and hunting minke whales are being discussed at a convention in Bangkok. Send us your views.
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A decision to be made this weekend on whether to allow the sale of 60 tons of elephant ivory is exposing rifts between nongovernment agencies dedicated to defending the diversity of plants and animals.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory CoastâCanada has decided to airlift its citizens out of Ivory Coast after the security situation in the former French colony on the west coast of Africa deteriorated sharply.
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The African Union (AU) is considering the deployment of peacekeepers to Ivory Coast after days of violence in the world's largest cocoa producer, South African President Thabo Mbeki's spokesman has said.
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A dispute over how much farmers must pay to industry trade bodies is disrupting the cocoa harvest  in Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer.
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Japan was fuming over the failure of its bid to expand trade in whale products and Africa swapped blows over ivory Thursday as a U.N. meeting on trade in wild plants and animals wrapped up.
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Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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Plus, Coke loses some fizz, PeopleSoft sort of says no, and has Starbucks' value peaked?
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year alone....
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki left Ivory Coast's rebel town of Bouake after talks  Sunday, saying mediators would prepare proposals to end the  crisis in the world's top cocoa grower.
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Cocoa prices rose 3.5 percent on  Friday as commodity funds bought on technical signals, a  falling dollar and prospects of more political violence in  Ivory Coast, grower of 40 percent of the world's cocoa.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has triggered days of rioting, put French troops on the streets and paralyzed cocoa exports in the world's top grower.
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LONDON  - Cocoa futures on the International Financial Futures and Options Exchange rose sharply Monday because of fighting in the Ivory Coast, the world's No. 1 cocoa producer.
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Despite the reopening of Ivory Coast ports that ship 40 percent of the world&#39;s cocoa, unrest and fears of more violent upheaval are still threatening supplies from the world&#39;s top producer, traders said Monday.