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| Top National Business and Finance Headlines |
| Next West African cocoa harvest "without slave labour" |
| afrol - 14 Feb, 2005 |
| West Africa's cocoa plantations have long been ill-reputed for their use of forced labour and child labour, giving chocolate a bitter taste. In 2001, however, the global chocolate and cocoa industry bowed into pressure and promised to improve the poor labour conditions, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Already this year, monitoring and certificates are set to show results. |
| Europe imposes sanctions on Côte d'Ivoire |
| afrol - 15 Dec, 2004 |
| The foreign ministers of European Union (EU) have agreed to impose UN sanctions against Côte d'Ivoire, including travel bans, freezing of banc accounts and a ban on arms sales. |
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