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IVORY Coast's government has ordered that 20% of cocoa purchases by multinational companies must be fulfilled by local firms in an effort to improve their competitiveness, government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly said yesterday.
BARRICAES erected by opponents of Ivory Coast's president in protest at last month's disputed election have forced cocoa middlemen in western regions to reduce their purchases of beans, buyers have said. Bean arrivals at ports in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, fell by half early last week in the days after the October 31 presidential election, when clashes in the centre of the country killed more than 10 people. Buying picked up later in the week but has taken a fresh hit since Monday, when young people in the west and southwest began barricading roads, a dozen buyers…
