The instability of the government has fostered an active smuggling operation of cacao out of Ivory Coast and into neighboring Ghana.

It is being speculated that many thousands of metric tons of cocoa beans have been smuggled to Ghana from Ivory Coast since the harvest began in October.  

I recently read a Bloomberg article updating the situation in the Ivory Coast.  To jog your memory, a recent blog post of mine titled, Two Presidents of Ivory Coast, introduced the political situation in the largest cacao producing African country of Ivory Coast.
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