The Latest Breaking News from West Africa

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) today is up +455 (+4.20%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) is up +304 (+3.53%). Cocoa prices extended their 6-week rally today, with March NY cocoa and Mar London cocoa posting fresh contract highs. Cocoa prices are surging as the West African...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) Thursday closed up +244 (+2.31%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) closed up +206 (+2.45%). Cocoa prices extended their 6-week rally on Thursday, with Mar NY cocoa and Mar London cocoa posting fresh contract highs. Also, the nearest-futures Dec cocoa contract posted...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) Wednesday closed up +363 (+4.02%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) closed up +198 (+2.68%). Cocoa prices Wednesday settled sharply higher and recovered most of Tuesday's losses. Cocoa prices rallied Wednesday after weather forecaster Maxar Technologies said dry conditions in West Africa...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) today is up +355 (+3.93%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) is up +200 (+2.71%). Cocoa prices today are sharply higher and recovered most of Tuesday's losses. Cocoa prices rallied today after weather forecaster Maxar Technologies said dry conditions in West Africa...

Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital of Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each time

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) today is up +340 (+3.75%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) is up +105 (+1.38%). Cocoa prices today are moving higher, with Mar NY and London cocoa posting contract highs and Dec London cocoa posting a 4-1/2 month nearest-futures high. Cocoa prices...

More than a year after a military coup, Gabonese citizens have held a referendum in which they approved a new draft constitution. The constitutional revisions targeted dynastic rule by introducing presidential term limits and banning family members of a sitting president from running for the office.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ24 ) Friday closed up +448 (+5.30%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ24 ) closed up +413 (+5.62%). Cocoa prices soared Friday, with NY cocoa posting a 2-1/2 month high and London cocoa posting a 4-1/4 month high. The impact of recent heavy rains on...