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The UN Security Council has called for an end to the RSF paramilitary's brutal siege of the Darfuri city of El Fasher. We hear rare testimony from one resident who managed to escape but whose family is still stuck in the gunfire and bombings. Also, it has been two years…

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Thursday closed up +271 (+2.57%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed up +376 (+4.34%). Cocoa prices Thursday extended this week's rally and posted 1-1/2 month highs. Concerns that the global cocoa shortage will persist are underpinning prices. Reuters reported Wednesday...

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24) today is up +662 (+6.68%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24) is up +556 (+6.85%). Cocoa prices today rallied sharply to 6-week highs. Cocoa prices are sharply higher on concern about a prolonged shortage of cocoa supplies after Reuters reported today that Ghana is...

The concept of a freeport – an area where normal tax and customs rules don’t apply – has existed for centuries. Over time, different terms have emerged. They include export processing zones, free trade zones, special economic zones and industrial free zones. West Africa has 29 free zones, spanning 11…

To many people around the world bicycles are a crucial means of transport, especially for carrying loads in rural areas. While their benefits are huge and many organisations are working on making access to bicycles a reality, a range of barriers still prevent them from being more widely available in…

Farming just one kind of crop in a field at a time, and using a lot of chemicals, poses a risk to both people and nature. This simplified intensive agriculture often goes hand in hand with increased greenhouse gas emissions, land and water degradation, and loss of biodiversity.

Shark finning – the practice of removing the fins from a captured shark and discarding the rest, often still alive, back into the ocean – is banned in many countries due to its inhumane and unsustainable nature. However, these fins are highly valued for their use in shark fin soup,…

Both teams looking to close gap on surprise leaders Comoros Islands

Military forces from the United States and nearly three dozen countries have wrapped up the largest annual joint training exercise in Africa after two weeks in Tunisia, Ghana, Senegal and Morocco