ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - Bare-chested and glistening with cocoa butter, Didier Drogba taps the ball back and forth between his feet, a droplet of chocolate dripping down his left temple. Booting the ...

“My goal is to be able to give value to chocolate made in Ivory Coast." Viviane Kouame was only 17 when she fell in love with cocoa trees. The Ivory Coast entrepreneur decided that cocoa would be a ...

Jean Mari Konan Yao says he’s struggling as a cocoa farmer in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate. Like ...

Chocolate may be sweet, but the lives of most cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, are not. I spent time with Amani Yao, a farmer, to understand the challenges of growing ...

The country at the centre of the global chocolate industry says cocoa production is finally recovering after years of supply ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — On the streets of this skyscraper-lined West African metropolis, tension and rumors of an imminent return to war are always thick in the air — and so too, is the sweet smell of ...

Fulton, NY - A team from the ministry of justice in the Ivory Coast has been in Fulton this week, looking into New York Chocolate. L. Michael Treadwell, head of the Oswego County Industrial ...

ABIDJAN, May 16 (Reuters) - It was love at first sight for Viviane Kouame when, as a teenager growing up in Ivory Coast, she first saw cocoa trees with ripe pods on their trunks that reminded her of ...