Unrest blocks Ivory Coast cocoa
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Unrest in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, stops shipments from the country's two ports despite a lull in fighting.
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The conflict in Ivory Coast is in large part a contest for the country's most valuable asset: the land on which cocoa is grown.
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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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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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SEVERAL dozen white women were raped in Ivory Coast in riots that have shaken the west African state since late last week, but no foreign nationals were killed, a French military source said today.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 15  - Haitiâs strife-torn capital came to a standstill on Friday in a protest after two weeks of deepening violence that have left about 30 people dead.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory  Coast fired into the air and French soldiers blasted teargas to  disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in the rebel-held town of  Bouake on Monday, peacekeepers said.
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World cocoa prices rose from intraday  lows, but exports from the Ivory Coast, the key global  supplier, remain on hold after mob violence and military  clashes paralyze business in the West African country, traders  said on Tuesday.
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Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast president, is committed to implementing peace deals struck with rebels who hold the north of the world&#39;s top cocoa grower, President Thabo Mbeki said today.
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Ivory Coast's parliament start to debate proposed laws which lie at the heart of the two-year conflict.
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Supporters of Ivory Coast&#39;s President Laurent Gbagbo criticized on Tuesday a United Nations decision to impose an arms embargo on the world&#39;s top cocoa grower but rebel leaders welcomed the move.
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Cocoa exporters in Ivory Coast may be forced to restructure their operations after thousands of expatriates fled days of rioting and others consider
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French citizens wait to depart to France at the airport of Abidjan , Ivory Coast, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. African leaders convened in an emergency summit on Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis on Sunday without this country&#39;s
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Government warplanes and helicopter  gunships pounded rebel-held towns in northern Ivory Coast for a  second day on Friday, fueling fears of a slide into all-out war  in the world's top cocoa grower.
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Joint patrols have begun in Ivory Coast&#39;s commercial centre, Abidjan, in an attempt to maintain law and order after three days of disturbances.
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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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Description: Commentator Meri Danquah lives in Ghana. The recent unrest in neighboring Ivory Coast has her thinking more than ever about the stability of West Africa.