IVORY COAST: ROAD BLOCKS HAVE BEEN HAMPERING EFFORTS TO GET COCOA OUT OF THE BUSH

Record ID: 183467

  • Title: IVORY COAST: ROAD BLOCKS HAVE BEEN HAMPERING EFFORTS TO GET COCOA OUT OF THE BUSH
  • Date: 18th November 2004
  • Summary: (W4) DUEKOUE, IVORY COAST (NOVEMBER 18, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV OF TRUCK LOADED WITH COCOA BAGS AT UN CHECKPOINT 0.04 2. SV/SLV TRUCK BEING CHECKED BY UN SOLDIERS (3 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SV UN MACHINE GUN WITH CHECKPOINT IN BACKGROUND 0.18 4. SLV TRUCK LOADED WITH COCOA BAGS PASSING ROADBLOCK 0.24 5. SV UN ARMOURED VEHICLE 0.27 6. SLV ANOTHER TRUCK PASSING CHECKPOINT 0.35 7. SLV UN SOLDIER FROM BANGLADESH AT ROADBLOCK WITH LOCAL PEOPLE WALKING IN BACKGROUND 0.40 8. SLV/SV OF PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 0.51 9. SV OF UN CHECKPOINT WITH BARBED WIRE AND GRAFFITI ON WALL READING (IN FRENCH) : "UN IS FOR YOUR SECURITY" 0.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: DUEKOUE, 500 KM NORTH WEST OF ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVAESZ1UESUK8CCRQDK1QO5KDSHJ
  • Story Text: Road blocks have been hampering efforts to get cocoa
    out of the bush.



    Road blocks set up following days of anti-French
    rioting in Ivory Coast have been hampering efforts to get
    cocoa out of the bush, according to cocoa traders.

    Ivory Coast's ports have started operating again after
    violent unrest but some in the industry said business was
    subdued for the time of year as transport difficulties
    persisted inland.

    Truck drivers said some cocoa buyers were paying for
    the army to escort their lorries to the ports for a fee to
    avoid racketeering as they rushed to get their loads to
    shippers in case the calm did not last.

    Buyers in the Daloa region are worried that the bean
    supply from Vavoua, 60km to the north and accounting for
    around 40 percent of regional production, will dry up after
    the road running south from the rebel town was closed by
    the military.

    The New Forces rebel group said 52 people were killed
    in Vavoua after bombing raids on the north two weeks ago by
    government warplanes trying to recapture rebel-held
    territory.


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