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Cocoa Prices Slip on Expectations for Needed Rain in West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) today is down -39 (-0.53%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -109 (-1.75%). Cocoa prices today are moderately lower. Cocoa recovered from its worst levels today as short covering emerged after updated weather forecasts lowered the rainfall amounts expected next...

Cocoa Settles Sharply Lower as Volatile Price Moves Continue

Cocoa Settles Sharply Lower as Volatile Price Moves Continue

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Thursday closed down -450 (-5.74%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed down -325 (-4.96%). Cocoa prices posted sharp losses on Thursday as the market continued its volatile price swings. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of...

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds

Judges describe second novel set between south-east London and Ghana as ‘symphonic’ and ‘viscerally moving’

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Cocoa Sharply Lower as a Lack of Liquidity Sparks Volatile Price Moves

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is down -467 (-5.95%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -314 (-4.79%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower as the market continues its volatile price swings. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity,...

Cocoa Prices Close Sharply Higher on Recovery After Monday's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Wednesday closed up +521 (+7.12%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed up +405 (+6.59%). Cocoa prices on Wednesday settled sharply higher on ideas that this week's price plunge was overdone. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack...

Cocoa Prices Recover More of This Week's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is up +559 (+7.63%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is up +401 (+6.52%). Cocoa prices this morning are sharply higher on speculation that this week's price plunge was overdone. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack...

Cocoa Prices Finish Moderately Higher in Volatile Trade

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Tuesday closed up +156 (+2.18%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed up +149 (+2.48%). Cocoa prices posted moderate gains on Tuesday as they recovered some of Monday's plunge. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity,...

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Cocoa Prices Recover Some of Monday's Plunge

Cocoa Prices Recover Some of Monday's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is up +187 (+2.61%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is up +224 (+3.73%). Cocoa prices this morning are moderately higher, recovering some of Monday's plunge. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity, with open...

Cocoa Prices Finish Sharply Lower on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

Cocoa Prices Finish Sharply Lower on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Monday closed down -1,725 (-19.40%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed down -1,565 (-20.69%). Cocoa prices on Monday plunged to 1-week lows and settled sharply lower. Forecasts for rain in West Africa are boosting the outlook for cocoa crops and...

Cocoa Prices Plummet on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

Cocoa Prices Plummet on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is down -1,707 (-19.20%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -1,550 (-20.49%). Cocoa prices this morning plunged to 1-week lows and are sharply lower. Forecasts for rain in West Africa are boosting the outlook for cocoa crops and...

World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say

World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say

Charities and campaign groups are calling on bodies to say they may stop funding country if legislation comes into effect

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Ghana's Top Court Delays Hearing On Anti-LGBTQ Bill Challenge

Ghana's Top Court Delays Hearing On Anti-LGBTQ Bill Challenge

Ghana's Supreme Court postpones hearing on anti-LGBTQ bill challenge, stirring controversy and debate.

Salone Del Mobile 2024 | Vikram Goyal’s design stopover in Milan

Salone Del Mobile 2024 | Vikram Goyal’s design stopover in Milan

Delhi-based designer Vikram Goyal shares finds from this year’s Salone del Mobile — from lamps woven with PET bottles and Ghanaian grass to deconstructed furniture

Flood-hit Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya

Flood-hit Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya

In tonight's edition: Kenya and Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya as heavy rains persist. Also, with millions on the brink of famine in Sudan, we speak to an activist monitoring the crisis who shares his concerns about an imminent attack on the city of El Fasher. Finally, royal treasures looted…

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HRW reveals Burkina Faso massacre of villagers by army

Human Rights Watch says 223 civilians were summarily executed by soldiers in a single day in Burkina Faso. Also, heavy rain continues to bring devastation in Kenya's capital Nairobi, with roads turned into rivers. And it's been a year since Ghana started using a new malaria vaccine. Children have received…

Two new malaria vaccines are being rolled out across Africa — how they work and what they promise

Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021.

Chocolate prices have exploded—as has the wealth of Mars and Ferrero family empires, outsizing two of the world's top cocoa-producing countries

The collective wealth of the Ferrero and Mars families beats the summed-up GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, Oxfam's report said.

Could shipping containers be the answer to Ghana’s housing crisis?

An initiative to help provide much-needed homes in Ghana is turning shipping containers into eco-friendly homes.

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UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years

The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars.

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‘My cast and crew’s safety kept me up at night’: why a queer Ghanaian film may never be screened

Joewackle J Kusi was finishing his film Nyame Mma when an anti-LGBTQ+ bill was passed, bringing the threat of prosecution for those ‘promoting’ queer stories

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‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains why

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‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dial

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Artists of the future, Ghanaian kings’ robes and a tiny moth – the week in art

Amateur artists join the pros in Gateshead, Old Master pastiches go on show in London, and a bursary for young photographers is launched in memory of the Guardian’s Eamonn McCabe – all in your weekly dispatch

Priest, 63, Marries 12-Year-Old Girl, Community Leaders Tell Her To Dress Teasingly

Ghana is home to over two million child brides, UNICEF data shows. The post Priest, 63, Marries 12-Year-Old Girl, Community Leaders Tell Her To Dress Teasingly first appeared on Bored Panda.

Challenges And Progress In Abortion Rights Across Africa

Challenges and progress in abortion rights in Africa, including legal issues, misinformation, and advocacy efforts.

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