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SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day (INO News)
ABIDJAN (Dow Jones)--The average price paid for one kilogram of cocoa beans at Ivory Coast's farm gates in the seven days to Nov. 30 was 575 CFA francs ($1.12), up on the XOF545/kg registered in the preceding week, according to data from the BCC Coffee and Cocoa Marketing Body.
3 Dec 2008, 7:07 am | click here for more
COTE D'IVOIRE: Poverty getting worse - study (IRIN)
ABIDJAN, 3 December 2008 (IRIN) - “School has no value any more.” That is one of many “catastrophic” effects of the six-year conflict in Côte d'Ivoire and the poverty it has engendered, according to a lady in the north-central town of Séguéla who did not want to be identified.
3 Dec 2008, 2:39 pm | click here for more
Crate-diggers, Demonstrators, Foot-tappers: Chopteeth, the Crazy Fools of Afrobeat, Call for Rhythmic Regime-Change in ... (All About Jazz)
Afrofunk band Chopteeth came from an unexpected place. Labor organizer and guitarist Robert Fox was mourning the sudden, heartbreaking death of a close pal in a car accident. It was a terrible, terrible thing, remembers Fox. I came back from this and thought, Wow, that could have been me!
2 Dec 2008, 8:56 am | click here for more
SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day (INO News)
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Ukraine produced 1.405 million metric tons of refined sugar to Dec. 1 from beet harvested this year, which is 24% less than the year-earlier date, the national sugar producers' association Ukrtsukor reported Tuesday.
2 Dec 2008, 7:09 am | click here for more
Emerging Capital Partners Invests in West African Utilities Infrastructure Company (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Emerging Capital Partners , an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, today announced an investment in Finagestion, a holding company that operates several major water and power production and distribution contracts in Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal.
2 Dec 2008, 7:00 am | click here for more
Cote d'Ivoire enrolls 1.5 mln in pre-election identification in Abidjan (People's Daily)
A total of 1.5 million people have been enrolled in the pre-election identification for the past two weeks in Abidjan, economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire, according to an official statement. "The Independent Electoral Commission states that by this day, 1.5 million people have been enrolled," organizers said in the statement on Monday. The city has opened 774 centers since the operation began for ...
2 Dec 2008, 5:19 am | click here for more
Côte d'Ivoire: American Embassy's National Daily Press Review (AllAfrica.com)
This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Pre-electoral violence in central Cote d'Ivoire was one of the major stories in today's Ivorian dailies.
2 Dec 2008, 5:02 pm | click here for more
AfDB Joins the Rest of the World to Commemorate World Aids Day (AllAfrica.com)
The AfDB on Monday, December 1, 2008, joined the relax of the world to commemorate the World AIDS Day. As part of the events marking this day, the AfDB organized a forum in Tunis in which medical experts and AfDB staff exchanged views on HIV-related issues.
2 Dec 2008, 4:32 am | click here for more
The Almanac -- weekly (Moldova.org)
Today is Monday, Dec. 8, the 343rd day of 2008 with 23 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Saturn and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.Those born on this date are below the sign of Sagittarius. They include Mary Queen of Scots in 1542; Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, in 1765; General Motors founder William Durant in 1861; Finnish ...
2 Dec 2008, 4:00 am | click here for more
ANALYSIS-Military unrest adds to Ivory Coast poll problems (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By David Lewis and Ange Aboa ABIDJAN, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Feuding rebels and pay protests in Ivory Coast's new mixed army are creating a security headache that could threaten preparations for an ...
2 Dec 2008, 10:15 am | click here for more