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Côte d’Ivoire to reduce cocoa exports due to bad harvest

Bad news for the chocolate market that could send already high prices skyrocketing. Côte d’Ivoire plans to slash its exports of cocoa in view of prospects of a bad harvest. Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s second largest producer of the main chocolate ingredient, has experienced heavy rainfall that threatens to compromise crops for the second year […]

Sahara: Algeria & Polisario accuse UN of violating ceasefire deal

The Algeria-backed polisario separatist group has accused the United Nations of violating the ceasefire agreement, concluded in 1991, after the UN dropped definitively the referendum option for the settlement of the Sahara, insisting on a realistic, practical and lasting political solution to the Sahara issue. The Algerian-Polisario duo seized the opportunity of the 29th anniversary […]

Colombia extends to the Sahara the consular jurisdiction of its embassy in Rabat, in a clear recognition of the Moroccanness of the southern provinces

Colombia has decided to extend the consular jurisdiction of its embassy in Rabat to the whole Moroccan territory, including the Sahara. The decision, announced in a joint statement issued Thursday at the end of talks in Rabat between the Colombian Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia, Marta Lucia Ramirez, who is currently on […]