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Abidjan (AFP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday celebrated Africa's biggest football tournament and toured a US-funded port, hoping to prove the United States is "all in" for the continent despite global crises. Blinken is touring four democracies on the Atlantic Coast -- Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola -- as Russia and China make inroads in the continent, security deteriorates in the Sahel and doubts grow about a key US base in coup-hit Niger. Showing a softer side to the United States, Blinken in Abidjan went straight to see the Africa Cup of Nations, where his Ivoria...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is sending 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Ivory Coast, which is battling a continent-wide spike in Covid-19 cases, a US official said Wednesday. "Thanks to the US commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, the United States is shipping this week 1,183,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Cote d'Ivoire," the White House official told AFP. Shipment is being managed through Covax, the distributor backed by the World Health Organization and the Gavi vaccine alliance. Doses "ship today and will arrive in country this weekend," ...
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Abidjan (AFP) - Ivory Coast's cocoa producers have ended their row with Hershey's after the US chocolate giant committed to paying a premium above the market price under an initiative to help lift the incomes of poor farmers. Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's number one and two cocoa producers respectively, on Monday accused confectionery giants Hershey's and Mars of sidestepping a deal to pay the living income differential (LID), a bonus of $400 per tonne of cocoa, the raw material for chocolate. Millions of small farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together grow 60 percent of the world'...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether two major corporations -- Nestle USA and Cargill -- can be held responsible for forced child labor on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.The case could allow the court to limit liability for US firms for human rights abuses committed in other countries.The lawsuit was filed in 2005 by six Malians who say they were trafficked as children then held as slaves on Ivorian farms, where the US subsidiary of Switzerland-based Nestle and the American agricultural giant Cargill have purchased cocoa.The lawsuit argues that the two companies k...
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