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West Africa vs Big Chocolate: Battle over price sours relations Global cocoa output has grown 18% over the past five years to 4.7 million tonnes, with top producer Ivory Coast producing 2.1 million tonnes in the last crop year, up almost a third, according to the International Cocoa Organisation of producing and consuming countries. Keystone / Legnan Koula The 100,000 cocoa farmers Frank Okyere represents as head of Ghana’s Kuapa Kokoo co-operative eke out hardscrabble lives despite producing the raw material for a global chocolate industry worth an annual $100 billion (CHF88 billion) in...

A FTER A PRAYER, the electoral commission announced that Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, had won another four years in office in national elections held on December 7th. His supporters cheered in the streets. But his victory is far from comprehensive. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Mr Akufo-Addo’s margin shrank and his party suffered heavy losses in the parliament. About 30 seats were flipped, leaving the house split almost evenly between the two major parties. (As The Economist went to a press a handful were still in the balance.) The main opposit...