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Ivory Coast seizes 33 trucks transporting smuggled cocoa beans

Ivory Coast’s Coffee and Cocoa Council has seized 33 trucks transporting approximately 1,100 tonnes of smuggled cocoa beans across the border from Guinea, according to sources. The rise in cocoa smuggling in the region follows poor harvests in both Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s largest and second-largest cocoa producers, according to Reuters. The details […]