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Nigeria seeks to cash in on soaring cocoa prices
Nigeria seeks to cash in on soaring cocoa prices
by  AFP

Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, where crops have been ravaged by climate change and disease. - 'Full-sun' monocrop - Ivory Coast is by far the world's top grower, producing more than two million tonnes of cocoa beans in 2023, followed by Ghana at 650,000 tonnes.

'Grieving': US federal workers thrown into uncertain job market
'Grieving': US federal workers thrown into uncertain job market
by  AFP

Unprecedented cuts to the US government overseen by President Donald Trump's billionaire advisor Elon Musk are sending thousands of federal workers and contractors back to the labor market -- but experts warn that hiring is low at this time. - Low hiring rate - "It could be quite hard to find alternative employment if there's a big flood of people onto the market at once," Sojourner warned.

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