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Since the abolition of government subsidies (in September) on imports, the price of petrol is partly indexed to the market price. A small revolution in Nigeria, the largest raw material producer on the African continent with very little refining capacity. Even if legislative measures remain and petrol remains cheap in the country, adaptation is still difficult for consumers and players in the sector.…

The world's main cocoa producer, Côte d'Ivoire and its neighbor Ghana and the world's second largest producer, promised final yr to lift the worth paid to growers by establishing, after session with the multinational chocolate corporations, a "Differential of First rate Earnings" of 400 In consequence, on 1 October, Côte d'Ivoire formally set the worth paid for crops at 1,000 CFA francs per kilogram of…

Malagasy women pay a high price for the economic and social crisis caused by Covid-19. This is the observation of the CNFM, the National Council of Women in Madagascar. The organization, which brings together associations from across the country, warns of the situation of many Malagasy women who are already insecure and who have clearly worsened since the coronavirus pandemic: job losses, deteriorating…

Farmers' reactions to the rise in the price of cocoa paid to Côte d'Ivoire producers are not uniform. While some are happy, others believe it is a first step. With our special correspondent in Yamossoukro, Stanislas Ndayishimiye The notice of increase in the price of cocoa paid to the producer in Ivory Coastranging from 825 to 1000 CFA francs per kilos, has made producers "very happy", estimates Jérôme Yao Kouakou, plants in Issia, in the midwestern Ivory Coast. Announced Thursday by President Alassane Ouattara, on…