The price of cocoa hit a peak in April at $12,261 a tonne, having been about $3,000 in April 2023, but by this month the price of cocoa had dipped again to about $7,750. ANALYSIS | ANDREW TURNER | Chocolate bars could get smaller or have cheaper ingredients added as …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A city resident, Francis Jjumba has run to court seeking more than 300 million Shillings in compensation from Shoprite supermarket for selling him expired chocolate. In his documents before the High Court Civil Division, Jjumba contends that on April 23, 2020, he purchased groceries …
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Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Forget chocolate, flowers or a romantic dinner. A zoo in Texas is offering singles the chance to name a cockroach after their ex and see it fed to a meerkat live on camera on Valentine’s Day. In a campaign dubbed “Quit Bugging Me!!!” the …
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Young entrepreneur exploits well-kept secret Kampala, Uganda | ANDREW S. KAGGWA | That Uganda has the largest single owned cocoa farm in Africa is perhaps one of the best kept secrets – and Stephen Sembuya, the co-owner of the cocoa trading and processing firm Pink Foods Industries, was born into it. …
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