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Ivory Coast's cocoa farmers have gone on strike to protest at low prices in the world's biggest producer. Farmers in the trade union Anaproci, which represents 80% of Ivory Coast's 700,000 cocoa farmers, are preventing cocoa from getting to ports. The strike follows a warning over the spread of a cocoa disease. Cocoa lies at the heart of what was one of West Africa's strongest economies, before the country was divided by civil war in 2002.