Cocoa farmers say they’re not paid a fair price

Ghana and Ivory Coast this week boycotted a meeting on cocoa sustainability in Brussels, saying multinational chocolate companies are blocking measures to improve farmers’ lives. We speak to award-winning Ghanaian cocoa farmer Samuel Korboe, who says the price being paid by the big players in the market is not enough for people to survive on.

Plus, the World Health Organization is warning that millions of people in northern Ethiopia are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, facing a ‘perfect storm’ of deprivation. The war in Tigray has led to a de facto blockade of the region for most of the last two years, while cholera and measles outbreaks have been recorded in Amhara and Afar.

And in South Africa preparations are underway ahead of the inauguration of a new Zulu king Misuzulu ka Zwelithini on Saturday.

(Photo: A recently-opened cocoa pod in Asikasu, Ghana; Credit: Getty Images)