Ivorian cocoa farmers on strike
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.
See "Ivorian cocoa farmers on strike", BBC News, BBC News Online, October 15, 2006