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Abidjan, IVORY COAST: Ivorian farmers unload sacks of cacao beans for burning at Anyama, north of Abidjan, as a national strike was called by cultivators to protest an "insufficient" price hike for growers and taxes ajudged "still too high" 16 October 2006. Cacao is a key sector for the west African country, generating about 15 percent of its gross domestic output. A recent United Nations report denounced "the lack of transparency of [Ivorian] public finances concerning the sum of receipts from the production and exportation of cacao and their redistribution," suspecting receipts may fund arms purchases despite an embargo on Ivory Coast. (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Abidjan, IVORY COAST: Ivorian farmers unload sacks of cacao beans for burning at Anyama, north of Abidjan, as a national strike was called by cultivators to protest an "insufficient" price hike for growers and taxes ajudged "still too high" 16 October 2006. Cacao is a key sector for the west African country, generating about 15 percent of its gross domestic output. A recent United Nations report denounced "the lack of transparency of [Ivorian] public finances concerning the sum of receipts from the production and exportation of cacao and their redistribution," suspecting receipts may fund arms purchases despite an embargo on Ivory Coast. (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
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