2014 World Cup: Africa’s hopes in Brazil At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, from 12 June to 13 July, Africa's teams hope to produce better results than at the 2010 tournament in South Africa. ... Ghana, Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Cameroon represent the continent this year, but which of them will make it past the first round?
Ghana to raise cocoa price high enough to stop smuggling Ghana plans to raise its fixed cocoa price next season to a level which ensures smuggling into neighbouring grower Ivory Coast is not attractive, ... the chief executive of cocoa sector regulator Cocobod said.
People aren’t borrowing for white elephants – President of African Dev. Bank The AfDB [African Development Bank] president is not worried about rising African debt levels and wants to restructure the bank before he steps ... down from his second term in office in 2015.
Currency fall deepens Ghana’s cocoa smuggling troubles Ghana's falling currency has fuelled smuggling of as much as 100,000 tonnes of cocoa into neighbouring Ivory Coast since October, reversing a ... trend, industry sources said.
Gbagbo’s long shadow on Côte d’Ivoire’s politics The supporters of the former president are slowly reforming the opposition. ...
Gold or Cocoa? West Africa’s cocoa future threatened Five years ago, as world spot gold prices began an unprecedented rally to around $1,900 an ounce in late 2011, poor cocoa farmers woke up to ... the possibility that salvation lay beneath their feet.
Côte d’Ivoire’s $618 million no-bid government contracts under scrutiny Côte d'Ivoire awarded 294 billion CFA francs ($617.87 million) worth of public procurement, nearly 43 percent last year's total by value, via ... no-bid contracts according to government figures, despite growing donor concern and public suspicion of graft.
Côte d’Ivoire: Abidjan port aims for regional supremacy Côte d'Ivoire has launched massive upgrades to its ports to support the growth of the natural resource sector and to attract more of the regional ... transit trade.
Ivory Coast passes mining code, aims to double gold output Lawmakers in Ivory Coast have approved a long-awaited mining code the West African country hopes will draw in more investors as it seeks to double ... gold output by next year.
Are Africa’s politicians value for money? MPs can be preening, corrupt, overpaid and opportunist. But activists increasingly see them as key allies in the struggle for change against ... overbearing presidents and ministers.