Illegal mining, smuggling threaten Ghana’s cocoa industry

Ghana, the world’s second biggest cocoa producer, faces a growing risk to its harvest — and blow to its crisis-hit economy — from illegal mining and smugglers, industry officials, farmers and activists warn. Top producer Ivory Coast and Ghana, together with other West African neighbours, produce two thirds of the world’s supply of cocoa, the […]

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