Podcasts about Ivory Coast

Get ready for an engaging morning as Morgan State University professor Dr. Ray Winbush returns to our classroom this Thursday! Dr. Winbush will delve into the significant insights from Donald Trump’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and provide a critical update on the evolving situation in the Sahel Nations. Before Dr. Winbush takes the mic, DC activist Dr. Kokayi Patterson will offer an exciting preview of the upcoming DC Wholistic Healers Health Fair. Also joining us is Lincoln University African History Professor Dr. Gnaka Lagoke, who will shed light on the troubling developments surrounding the suspected ongoing coup in his homeland of the Ivory Coast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Temple Open Houses Begin  Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire Temple Opened to tours on April 28th, lead by Alfred Kyungu Until May 17th, ahead of dedication on 25th. (Rasband) Last Moroni! Pewter colored statue Announced in 2015, 1 of 4 temples announced... The post How do YOU say Ivory Coast – Temple Ticker – 932 appeared first on The Cultural Hall Podcast.

This week we're excited to present a conversation from the 2025 edition of the New York African Film Festival with Black Tea director Abderrahmane Sissako and producer Kessen Tall. This conversation was moderated by Film Comment editor Devika Girish. After saying no on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast for a new life in the buzzing “Chocolate City” of Guangzhou, China. In this district where the African diaspora meets Chinese culture, she gets hired in a tea boutique owned by Cai, a Chinese man. In the secrecy of the back shop, Cai decides to initiate Aya to the tea ceremony. Through the teaching of this ancient art, their relationship slowly turns into tender love. But for their burgeoning passion to lead to mutual trust, they must let go of their burdens and face their past. Having made its New York Premiere at Film at Lincoln Center earlier this month, Black Tea is currently playing in select theaters, courtesy of Cohen Media Group.

Mali's military junta has dissolved all political parties in the country. Why are the youth dissenting?Why are Nigerians being trafficked to Ivory Coast?And plans by Ethiopia to allow foreigners and companies to buy property in the countryPresenter: Blessing Aderogba Producers: Nyasha Michelle and Tom Kavanagh in London, Richard Kagoe and Frenny Jowi in Nairobi. Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Derrell Sekou Walker teaches West African dance to elementary and middle schoolers at two Portland public schools. He loves his job, but as the founder and artistic director of Sebé Kan Youth African Dance Company, he is bringing his love of this art form — along with the feelings of joy and freedom it inspires — to the larger community. He first formed Sebé Kan more than 20 years ago, but since 2018, he’s been focused on teaching the dance traditions from Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast and other West African nations to children and youth. On May 16, the company will present a one night only, multigenerational dance performance and concert called “Mobaya: A Coming of Age” at Portland’s Newmark Theatre.   Walker joins us, along with his wife Karida Walker, who is a dancer in the troupe; and high school senior Nylah Jae Holt, who has been dancing with Sebé Kan since she was 8 years old. 

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has called on all African countries to work together and deal with conflicts and coups on the continent. He says the African Union needs to do more to address the many challenges facing the continent. Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Kagame says regardless of the challenges, efforts must be made to finding lasting peace.

She is a music legend whose voice and presence have shaped generations beyond the African continent. Beninese-French singer Angélique Kidjo is a multi-Grammy award winner but also a fierce advocate for education, culture and freedom. This year, she was one of the "Guests of Honour" at Abidjan's Festival of Urban Music in Ivory Coast, where she shared the stage with emerging artists in Africa. On the sidelines of the festival, Kidjo sat down with our music editor Fatimata Wane. In this special interview, they discuss Kidjo's passion for music and working with the next generation to come.

Catherine Byaruhanga, presenter and correspondent for the BBC News Channel, speaks to Tidjane Thiam, the main opposition leader in the Ivory Coast. Mr Thiam is a former CEO of Credit Suisse, with a lengthy and successful career in the financial sector abroad. Now, he wishes to stand for the Ivory Coast presidency - but his candidacy has been blocked by an Ivorian court. It has ruled he cannot run as he was not an Ivorian citizen when he registered on the electoral roll. Tidjane Thiam says the decision is politically motivated, a claim firmly rejected by the government of the Ivory Coast. But he is defending his right to run.Despite years of civil war since the turn of the century, Ivory Coast has a high level of income compared to its neighbours. But Mr Thiam believes more can be done to attract investment and to boost business - and that he has the financial expertise and contacts to make it happen.The Interview brings you conversations with people shaping our world, from all over the world. The best interviews from the BBC. You can listen on the BBC World Service, Mondays and Wednesdays at 0700 GMT. Or you can listen to The Interview as a podcast, out twice a week on BBC Sounds, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.Presenter: Catherine Byaruhanga Producers: Lucy Sheppard, Madeleine Drury Editor: Max DevesonGet in touch with us on email TheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the hashtag #TheInterviewBBC on social media.

Pascal dreams, hoarding mattresses, a new business idea to put your dog to work, the universal cool S from grade school on petroglyphs in Niger. Today has it ALL. In the game, Sarah caters to Bobby's love of flags as we discuss certain countries. "Orange" you glad you tuned in this week?!Timestamps:1:58 - Pedro Pascal dream5:10 - the problem with Sarah's dream6:09 - Pudas nicknames7:10 - Game Preview (bobby is flag boy)8:30 - why 1 person has 2 mattresses10:56 - Sarah's new business idea for her dog12:47 - Game begins21:30 - Compassion vs kindness / friendly vs niceToday's BS'sbeing spied (upon)British suck (it)box shreddingbobby's s*xistbuddha smilingbluetooth speaker (cutting room floor)butterscotch (cutting room floor)Our instagram. India, Niger, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Pedro Pascal, Petroglyphs, Orange, Green, Flag, Fig, Vexillology, Cyprus

Ten illegal miners were arrested in a joint operation by the Enchi Forest Division and the military in the Boin Forest Reserve, located near the Ivory Coast border in the Aowin Municipality. The arrested miners have been handed over to the Enchi police for prosecution

Ivory Coast's main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam has been struck off the electoral list. The judiciary has declared he is ineligible to run in October's presidential election due to his citizenship. Tidjane Thiam also held French citizenship which he renounced in order to run for the presidency. A court this week argued, that the former Credit Suisse boss forfeited his Ivorian nationality when he acquired French citizenship in 1987. We'll get analysisAlso, did past African National Congress party (ANC) governments in South Africa interfere with investigation and prosecution of apartheid-era crimes? President Cyril Ramaphosa has set up an inquiry. How will it work?And, how does money laundering work, what is a 'grey list' and how do countries can get off it?Presenter: Charles Gitonga Technical Producer: Jack Graysmark Producers: Tom Kavanagh and Nyasha Michelle in London and Richard Kagoe in Nairobi Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard

Missionary Letter - Ivory Coast/Mali

In this episode, Loye and Fola discuss the increasing use of "Lawfare" in various countries across the continent as a means for incumbents to retain control in election years.  The conversation then shifts to Africa's response to President Trump and the various deals being cut.  Finally, we explore the potential of mineral resources in Ghana and Nigeria.Time stamps:01:18 Lawfare in Ivory Coast, DRC, Tunisia, and Tanzania16:31 The Art of the Deal: Africa's response to Trump25:14 Minerals in Nigeria and Ghana's GoldBod36:06 What in the World?https://www.instagram.com/thebrief.xyz/

The murder trial that exposed horrifying gaps in child protection.An 8-year-old girl, barely clinging to life, was rushed to a London hospital after a cab driver sees her state. By the time paramedics got her there, it was already too late.  In this heartbreaking case, I tell you about the abuse, the failures, and the devastating loss of Victoria Climbié—and how an entire system let her down when she needed it most.************************************************************************************************Podcast Promo: Mythical True Crime*************************************************************************************************Do you have thoughts about this case, or is there a specific true crime case you'd like to hear about? Let me know with an email or a voice message: https://murderandlove.com/contactFind the sources used in this episode and learn more about how to support Love and Murder: Heartbreak to Homicide and gain access to even more cases, including bonus episodes, ad-free and intro-free cases, case files and more at: https://murderandlove.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please take some time to Rate, Share, Subscribe!

Zelenskyy Leaves SA, Back Home Over Russia Rainy Air Bombardments In Kyivhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/zelenskyy-leaves-sa-back-home-over-russia-rainy-air-bombardments-in-kyiv/24/04/2025/#World News #Putin #Russia #SouthAfrica #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©April 24th, 2025 ®April 24, 2025 8:19 pm While President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was on midair to South Africa on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin led Russia engaged the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv like never before since the full-scale war began on February 24, 2022, with disastrous-murderous rainy air bombardments, causing 10 deaths and over 80 people injured, with military intelligence suggesting that President Vladimir Putin may have launched the massive attacks on the Ukrainian capital as a calculated distraction to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over his visit to South Africa where Zelenskyy had planned to meet with representatives of civil, political and student communities from different Africa countries, a continent, it appears, Russia has built tighter relations with in recent years in the struggle for geopolitical supremacy against its rivals in the world powers like the US and France, which, Africa countries like Senegal, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Niger, had cut military ties with France and expelled its troops, and some of the Africa countries like Chad and Niger have also expelled US troops and cut military ties with the Whitehouse, and they all, including South Africa have moved closer to Russia but since June 2023 when South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa led an African leaders' peace mission to Ukraine and Russia where they both met with Zelenskyy and Putin, after the failed peace initiative, Ukraine has stepped up its relations in the Africa continent by sharing technological and military experience with African nations, donating grains, opening additional embassies in the Africa Continent with Ivory Coast and Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC already established out of the 10 new embassies pledged in 2023, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said in December 2023 that one of Ukraine's foreign policy priorities for 2024 is continuing to develop ties with African countries, as Moscow seeks to expand its influence on the continent. #OsazuwaAkonedo

World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 24th April 2025. Today: Germany Afghan flights. UK Ukraine peace talks. Vatican Pope mourning. Ivory Coast Thiam ruling. S Africa Zondi dies. Vietnam trade agreements. Australia defence spending. Brazil officials suspended. US Weinstein retrial. US Trump Powell relations. Kenyan Kipyegon record. With Juliet MartinSEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.Our supporters get access to the transcripts written by us every day.Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week. Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week. We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.org/supportContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.We don't use AI! Every word is written and recorded by us!Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.For more information visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PODCAST ANY PARENT CAN LISTEN TO AND A CALL TO ACTION. Our world has "tilted" and nobody noticed. Million Kids has been combating sextortion since 2010. Initially, we dealt with kids who sent nudes, or who bullied others who had sent a nude. Occasionally, it would be a case of 'revenge porn" where to lovers took photos during a hot moment and then broke up with the revengeful party threatening to share the photos. Then it progressed to individual pedophiles who would seduce young girls into sending a photo and the blackmail began.As global pedophile rings were brought together in the dark web, pedophiles would turn to sextortion to gather large numbers of nude photos that they could buy, sell or trade on the dark net. Some pedophiles were prosecuted for blackmailing more than 1000 victims. As technology expanded, law enforcement began to investigate overseas cases where U.S. citizens participated in live streaming of minors being exploited.However, the world changed right after Covid. As billions of people went online, we experienced a technological transformation unlike we have ever experienced before. With 5G High Speed Internet, money transfer, geo location software, and artificial intelligence, NO ONE WILL BE SAFE, and our children are target number one.Financial sextortion is one of the fastest growing digital exploitation crimes of 2025. Criminals from Nigeria, Myanmar, the Ivory Coast can access our kids at their weakest moment and the grooming begins. This is mainly targeting successful young males and they demand money. There are now more than 60 Nudify sites where criminals (and kids) can make a deep fake illicit image of the most innocent among us.Million Kids cares deeply about this issue. We say, NO MORE. We are working furiously to educate teachers, parents, kids, and school districts about how to not be a victim. Equally important we want to create a streamlined intervention program for students to have safe haven and get immediate law enforcement investigation. AND there must be a mass education program for parents and kids. Never again should we lose a precious young person because they did not understand how digital exploitation works.

Heavy US tariffs against much of the world will kick in on Tuesday at midnight. Few will be hit has hard as Cambodia — where nearly a third of the country's economy is generated by selling goods to Americans — as Cambodian exports to the US are set to face a 49% tariff. Also, Doctors Without Borders reports that 1/5 of all primary care visits in Gaza deal with illness caused by a lack of access to clean water as the enclave faces acute water shortages amid an Israeli blockade. And, the Ivory Coast bans wigs for this year's national beauty pageant in favor of natural hair styles. Plus, British Bengali musician Tara Lily's debut album is inspired by the ocean waves of Goa and nightlife in Mumbai.Listen to today's Music Heard on Air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Welcome to episode 125 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Microplastics messing with photosynthesis, agrochemicals in alcohol, and why we can't just turn plastic into bricks. We are a Non-Profit! 

Missionary Letter - Ivory Coast

After winning everything there was to win at Barcelona before moving to Manchester City, Yaya Toure sits down with Rio Ferdinand to discuss where he ranks amongst the Premier league's all time greatest midfielders. After growing up in Ivory Coast with footballing brother Kolo, Yaya discusses his journey from Africa to Europe including a challenging period in Ukraine.Yaya gives Rio incredible insight from the Barcelona dressing room that won every single competition they entered in a season including players like Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Samuel Eto'o and Xavi. Along with the tales from that group at Barcelona, you'll also hear insight from his time at Manchester City, how they channelled a “Manchester United mentality” to win their first Premier League title and the characters that ensured success at the Etihad. Yaya discusses his impact off the field at Man City where he helped with their recruitment on a number of star signings!As happens on all of the ‘Rio Meets' episodes, Yaya tells us his 5 a side team made up of the best players he's played with and gets pushed on where he'd rank himself in the list of great Premier League midfielders. In comments, rank in order between Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes & Patrick Vieira. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

«The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales.»In a Sephora-store on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a security guard is watching the shoppers. In the early 70's, Ferdinand arrives in Paris to start his new life and needs to learn the ropes. In the 90's, friends Ossiri and Kassoum work nights in the Parisian underground.Three generations of immigrants tell their stories in Standing Heavy, the sensational debut novel from author Armand Patrick Gbaka-Bredé, better known as GauZ'. With playful language, an eventful plot, and tons of observational humour, Standing Heavy is a devilish comedy about France's colonial heritage seen through the eyes of the service class.GauZ' is a French-Ivorian author, editor and publisher based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The novel Debout-Payé was lauded by critics when it was released in 2014, and in 2023 the English translation was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.At the House of Literature, GauZ' meets author and journalist Yohan Shanmugaratnam for a conversation on class, capitalism and the security guard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This is a two-part episode on Didier Drogba, originally released as part of our special Super-Listener Legends Super-Week. To listen to Part 2, please consider becoming a Super-Listener on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Footballforkids Alternatively, if you prefer Apple Podcasts, you can become a Super-Listener directly through the app. In this special Premier League Legends edition of Football For Kids, we explore the remarkable journey of Didier Drogba—from his early beginnings in Ivory Coast to his rise as one of Chelsea's greatest-ever strikers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joining me for this episode of Perspectives is culinary expert Annette Anthony. In Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir written by Annette Anthony takes readers on a global culinary adventure. She uses her Black girl culinary experience to show that what is similar across cultures stands out just as much as their uniqueness, and that there is always enough at the table, however little or much. From Philadelphia to travels across several continents, Anthony offers a generous and eclectic collection of more than 160 recipes she developed across her lifetime. Unlike cookbooks that concentrate on food preparation and ingredients alone, Always Enough maps a life enriched by many cultures and cuisines, reflecting the author's worlds and discovery of the crossroads of cultures and cuisines through poetry, prose and recipes. Anthony's memoir launches from her grandparents West Philadelphia home, where their southern roots influenced meals. Then she takes us to Paris, the Ivory Coast and back to Europe where she now lives in London.

For review:1. Iran Supreme Leader Not Interested in Talks with "Bullying" Countries. Iran's Supreme leader has criticized "bullying" countries in an apparent response to US President Donald Trump's letter demanding negotiations over its nuclear program.2. Israel on Sunday prepared to send a delegation to Doha for further talks on the Gaza truce.3. Israel's Energy Minister on Sunday instructed the Israel Electric Corporation to immediately cut off the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip, in an apparent bid to pile pressure on Hamas, where 24 hostages presumed to be alive, and the bodies of 35 more, are still held.4. Russian Forces Advance in Kursk Region. Russian forces on Sunday recaptured three more settlements in Russia's western Kursk region, the Defence Ministry said (Russian), as part of an operation to evict Ukrainian troops holding chunks of territory seven months after a cross-border incursion.5. Norway will more than double its aid to Ukraine in 2025 to bring the annual total to $7.8 billion, Prime Minister Jonas Store announced Thursday.6. France on Friday began handing over military bases in Senegal, as part of a withdrawal of troops from the west African nation where it has had a presence since 1960. The withdrawal follows the departure of French forces from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Ivory Coast in recent years.7.    Iran - Russia - China Naval Drills in Indian Ocean. The drills “will begin on Tuesday in the port of Chabahar,” located in southeast Iran on the Gulf of Oman, the Tasnim news agency said, without specifying their duration.                    Azerbaijan, South Africa, Oman, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka will attend as observers.8. The U.S. military's classified mini-space shuttle- the X-37B- returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 on a secret mission. Launched by SpaceX, the X-37B vehicle carried no people, just military experiments.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Starmer, Trump – AP photo Trump, British PM discuss Ukraine peace deal, security for Ukraine and minerals for US FDA abruptly cancels key scientific meeting to prepare flu vaccines for coming year, while this year's flu has killed 19,000, hospitalized 400,000 UN says Ivory Coast services near total collapse since US aid cutoff, Trump also cuts funding for UN AIDS programs in 70 countries San Jose mayor Mahan announces program to help homeless people – by giving them a ticket out of town PEN America report says most school book bans last year involved texts featuring people of color, LGBTQ+ people The post Trump, UK Prime Minister Starker discuss Ukraine peace deal; San Jose homelessness program uses free tickets out of town – February 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

In this ImpactVest podcast, Flora Espiand, co-founder of Cozy Connect, shares her journey and inspiration behind creating a platform that bridges the gap in accessing trusted, skilled services in the Ivory Coast. Growing up in a community-oriented household and witnessing local challenges, she co-founded Cozy Connect to empower local talent, foster economic growth, and simplify service accessibility. With plans for expansion across West Africa and a focus on innovation and socio-economic development, Cozy Connect aims to transform how communities connect, building trust, opportunity, and lasting impact.

This week we talk about arabica, robusta, and profit margins.We also discuss colonialism, coffee houses, and religious uppers.Recommended Book: On Writing and Worldbuilding by Timothy HicksonTranscriptLike many foods and beverages that contain body- or mind-altering substances, coffee was originally used, on scale at least, by people of faith, leveraging it as an aid for religious rituals. Sufis in what is today Yemen, back in the early 15th century, consumed it as a stimulant which allowed them to more thoroughly commit themselves to their worship, and it was being used by the Muslim faithful in Mecca around the same time.By the following century, it spread to the Levant, and from there it was funneled into larger trade routes and adopted by civilizations throughout the Mediterranean world, including the Ottomans, the Mamluks, groups in Italy and Northern Africa, and a few hundred years later, all the way over to India and the East Indies.Western Europeans got their hands on this beverage by the late 1600s, and it really took off in Germany and Holland, where coffee houses, which replicated an establishment type that was popularized across the Muslim world the previous century, started to pop up all over the place; folks would visit these hubs in lieu of alehouses, subbing in stimulants for depressants, and they were spaces in which it was appropriate for people across the social and economic strata to interact with each other, playing board games like chess and backgammon, and cross-pollinating their knowledge and beliefs.According to some scholars, this is part of why coffee houses were banned in many countries, including England, where they also became popular, because those up top, including but not limited to royalty, considered them to be hotbeds of reformatory thought, political instability, and potentially even revolution. Let the people hang out with each other and allow them to discuss whatever they like, and you end up with a bunch of potential enemies, and potential threats to the existing power structures.It's also been claimed, and this of course would be difficult to definitively prove, though the timing does seem to line up, that the introduction of coffee to Europe is what led to the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and eventually, the Industrial Revolution. The theory being that swapping out alcohol, at least during the day, and creating these spaces in which ideas and understandings and experiences could be swapped, without as much concern about social strata as in other popular third places, spots beyond the home and work, that allowed all sorts of political ideas to flourish, it helped inventions become realized—in part because there were coffee houses that catered to investors, one of which eventually became the London Stock Exchange—but also because it helped people organize, and do so in a context in which they were hyper-alert and aware, and more likely to engage in serious conversation; which is a stark contrast to the sorts of conversations you might have when half- or fully-drunk at an alehouse, exclusively amongst a bunch of your social and economic peers.If it did play a role in those movements, coffee was almost certainly just one ingredient in a larger recipe; lots of variables were swirling in these areas that seem to have contributed to those cultural, technological, economic, and government shifts.The impact of such beverages on the human body and mind, and human society aside, though, coffee has become globally popular and thus, economically vital. And that's what I'd like to talk about today; coffee's role in the global economy, and recent numbers that show coffee prices are ballooning, and are expected to balloon still further, perhaps substantially, in the coming years.—For a long while, coffee was a bit of a novelty outside of the Muslim world, even in European locales that had decently well-established coffeehouses.That changed when the Dutch East India Company started importing the beans to the Netherlands in the early 17th century. By the mid-1600s they were bringing commercial-scale shipments of the stuff to Amsterdam, which led to the expansion of the beverage's trade-range throughout Europe.The Dutch then started cultivating their own coffee crops in colonial territories, including Ceylon, which today is called Sri Lanka, and the island of Java. The British East India Company took a similar approach around the same time, and that eventually led to coffee bean cultivation in North America; though it didn't do terribly well there, initially, as tea and alcoholic beverages were more popular with the locals. In the late 18th century, though, North Americans were boycotting British tea and that led to an uptick in coffee consumption thereabouts, though this paralleled a resurgence in tea-drinking back in Britain, in part because they weren't shipping as much tea to their North American colonies, and in part because they conquered India, and were thus able to import a whole lot more tea from the thriving Indian tea industry.The Americas became more important to the burgeoning coffee trade in the mid-1700s after a French naval officer brought a coffee plant to Martinique, in the Caribbean, and that plant flourished, serving as the source of almost all of today's arabica coffee beans, as it was soon spread to what is today Haiti, and by 1788, Haiti's coffee plantations provided half the world's coffee.It's worth remembering that this whole industry, the portion of it run by the Europeans, at least, was built on the back of slaves. These Caribbean plantations, in particular, were famously abusive, and that abuse eventually resulted in the Haitian revolution of 1791, which five years later led to the territory's independence.That said, coffee plantations elsewhere, like in Brazil and across other parts of South and Central America, continued to flourish throughout this period, colonialists basically popping into an area, conquering it, and then enslaving the locals, putting them to work on whatever plantations made the most sense for the local climate.Many of these conquered areas and their enslaved locals were eventually able to free themselves, though in some cases it took a long time—about a century, in Brazil's case.Some plantations ended up being maintained even after the locals gained their freedom from their European conquerers, though. Brazil's coffee industry, for instance, began with some small amount of cultivation in the 1720s, but really started to flourish after independence was won in 1822, and the new, non-colonialist government decided to start clearing large expanses of rainforest to make room for more, and more intensive plantations. By the early 1900s, Brazil was producing about 70% of the world's coffee exports, with their neighbors—Colombia and Guatemala, in particular—making up most of the rest. Eurasian producers, formerly the only places where coffee was grown, remember, only made up about 5% of global exports by that time.The global market changed dramatically in the lead-up to WWII, as Europe was a primary consumer of these beans, and about 40% of the market disappeared, basically overnight, because the continent was spending all their resources on other things; mostly war-related things.An agreement between South and Central American coffee producing countries and the US helped shore-up production during this period, and those agreements allowed other Latin American nations to develop their own production infrastructure, as well, giving Brazil more hemispheric competition.And in the wake of WWII, when colonies were gaining their independence left and right, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia also became major players in this space. Some burgeoning Southeast Asian countries, most especially Vietnam, entered the global coffee market in the post-war years, and as of the 2020s, Brazil is still the top producer, followed by Vietnam, Indonesia, Colombia, and Ethiopia—though a few newer entrants, like India, are also gaining market share pretty quickly.As of 2023, the global coffee market has a value of around $224 billion; that figure can vary quite a lot based on who's numbers you use, but it's in the hundreds of billions range, whether you're looking just at beans, or including the ready-to-drink market, as well, and the growth rate numbers are fairly consistent, even if what's measured and the value placed on it differs depending on the stats aggregator you use.Some estimates suggest the market will grow to around $324 billion, an increase of around $100 billion, by 2030, which would give the coffee industry a compound annual growth rate that's larger than that of the total global caffeinated beverage market; and as of 2023, coffee accounts for something like 87% of the global caffeinated beverage market, so it's already the dominant player in this space, and is currently, at least, expected to become even more dominant by 2030.There's concern within this industry, however, that a collection of variables might disrupt that positive-seeming trajectory; which wouldn't be great for the big corporations that sell a lot of these beans, but would also be really bad, beyond shareholder value, for the estimated 25 million people, globally, who produce the beans and thus rely on the industry to feed their families, and the 100-110 million more who process, distribute, and import coffee products, and who thus rely on a stable market for their paychecks.Of those producers, an estimated 12.5 million work on smaller farms of 50 acres or less, and 60% of the world's coffee is made by people working on such smallholdings. About 44% of those people live below the World Bank's poverty metric; so it's already a fairly precarious economic situation for many of the people at the base-level of the production system, and any disruptions to what's going on at any level of the coffee industry could ripple across that system pretty quickly; disrupting a lot of markets and local economies, alongside the human suffering such disruptions could cause.This is why recent upsets to the climate that have messed with coffee crops are causing so much anxiety. Rising average temperatures, bizarre cold snaps, droughts, heavy and unseasonable rainfalls—in some cases all of these things, one after another—combined with outbreaks of plant diseases like coffee rust, have been putting a lot of pressure on this industry, including in Brazil and Vietnam, the world's two largest producers, as of the mid-2020s.In the past year alone, because of these and other externalities, the price of standard-model coffee beans has more than doubled, and the specialty stuff has seen prices grow even more than that.Higher prices can sometimes be a positive for those who make the now-more-expensive goods, if they're able to charge more but keep their expenses stable.In this case, though, the cost of doing business is going up, because coffee makers have to spend more on protecting their crops from diseases, losing crops because of those climate issues, and because of disruptions to global shipping channels. That means profit margins have remained fairly consistent rather than going up: higher cost to make, higher prices for consumers, about the same amount of money being made by those who work in this industry and that own the brands that put coffee goods on shelves.The issue, though, is that the cost of operation is still going up, and a lot of smallholders in particular, which again, produce about 60% of all the coffee made, worldwide, are having trouble staying solvent. Their costs of operation are still going up, and it's not a guarantee that consumers will be willing to continue spending more and more and more money on what's basically a commodity product; there are a lot of caffeinated beverages, and a lot of other types of beverage they could buy instead, if coffee becomes too pricy.And at this point, in the US, for instance, the retail price of ground roast coffee has surpassed an average of $7 per pound, up 15% in the past year. Everyone's expecting that to keep climbing, and at some point these price increases will lose the industry customers, which in turn could create a cascading effect that kills off some of these smaller producers, which then raises prices even more, and that could create a spiral that's difficult to stop or even slow.Already, this increase in prices, even for the traditionally cheaper and less desirable robusta coffee bean, has led some producers to leave coffee behind and shift to more consistently profitable goods; many plantations in Vietnam, for instance, have converted some of their facilities over to durian fruit, instead of robusta, and that's limited the supply of robusta, raising the prices of that bean, which in turn is causing some producers of robusta to shift to arabica, which is typically more expensive, and that's meant more coffee on the market is of the more expensive variety, adding to those existing price increases.The futures markets on which coffee beans are traded are also being upended by these pricing issues, resulting in margin calls on increasingly unprofitable trades that, in short, have necessitated that more coffee traders front money for their bets instead of just relying on short positions that have functioned something like insurance paid with credit based on further earnings, and this has put many of them out of business—and that, you guessed it, has also resulted in higher prices, and more margin calls, which could put even more of them out of business in the coming years.There are ongoing efforts to reorganize how the farms at the base on this industry are set up, both in terms of how they produce their beans, and in terms of who owns what, and who profits, how. This model typically costs more to run, and results in less coffee production: in some cases 25% less. But it also results in more savings because trees last up to twice as long, the folks who work the farms are much better compensated, and less likely to suffer serious negative health impacts from their labor, and the resultant coffee is of a much higher quality; kind of a win win win situation for everyone, though again, it's less efficient, so up till now the model hasn't really worked beyond some limited implementations, mostly in Central America.That could change, though, as these larger disruptions in the market could also make room for this type of segue, and indeed, there has apparently been more interest in it, because if the beans are going to cost more, anyway, and the current way of doing things doesn't seem to work consistently anymore, and might even collapse over the next decade if something doesn't change, it may make sense, even to the soulless accounting books of major global conglomerates, to reset the industry so that it's more resilient, and so that the people holding the whole sprawling industry up with their labor are less likely to disappear some day, due to more favorable conditions offered by other markets, or because they're simply worked to death under the auspices of an uncaring, fairly brutal economic and climatic reality.Show Noteshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/business/coffee-prices-climate-change.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100905180219/https://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B701/12MB701.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/1246099?origin=crossrefhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/07/coffee-prices-australia-going-up-cafe-flat-white-costhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y37dvlr70ohttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/business/coffee-prices-climate-change.htmlhttps://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/coffee-prices-food-inflation-climate-change-eggs-bank-of-america-2025-2https://www.statista.com/statistics/675807/average-prices-arabica-and-robusta-coffee-worldwide/https://www.ft.com/content/9934a851-c673-4c16-86eb-86e30bbbaef3https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/business/your-coffees-about-to-get-more-expensive-heres-why/index.htmlhttps://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/caffeinated-beverage-market-38053https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/caffeinated-beverage-markethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17th_and_18th_centurieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeehousehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffeehttps://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/the-coffeehouse-culture/https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/how-caffeine-fueled-the-enlightenment-industrial-revolution-the-modern-world.html This is a public episode. 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Join us in a conversation about Glocal missions and our church's calling to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus. This morning, we were privileged to hear from our Project Rescue partners, BBC and Shelly Teague, who shared about their impactful work in the Ivory Coast and across the continent of Africa. Let's lean in together as we push to expand God's mission across the world—from the nations to the neighborhoods.

More on dividend growth investing  -> Join our market newsletter!  Following brief upward momentum after we first bought Hershey, the stock proceeded to slide downward. Cocoa prices remain elevated, and there is significant uncertainty surrounding the short-term impacts on the company's operations. However, Hershey's recent earnings report shows that the company is more resilient than it may appear.Despite a 20% stock decline, Greg emphasizes that there are still many things to like about Hershey. Simply put, there is much more to the story than the current price of cocoa. Going a bit deeper, Greg examines the cocoa supply chain, specifically the impact of weather and geopolitical issues on production in major countries like Ivory Coast, Ecuador, and Ghana, highlighting several factors that suggest a possible future drop in cocoa prices. He further discusses Hershey's superb hedging strategies, strong balance sheet, and potential for high returns through dividends and stock growth within the next decade. Ultimately, Hershey's attractive valuation, dividend yield, and potential dividend growth allow investors to start with an advantage. In closing, Greg presents a Suber Bowl analogy to underscore the patience required for long-term investing, contrasting it with the short-term focus prevalent in current market analysis. 00:00 Introduction to The Dividend Mailbox02:16 Revisiting the Hershey Story05:37 Hershey's Market Position and Challenges07:36 Cocoa Market Dynamics12:04 Hershey's Financial Health and Strategy15:29 Investment Strategies and Long-Term Outlook25:50 Rant on Market Commentary and Short-Term Thinking31:14 Super Bowl Analogy and Final Thoughts37:50 Conclusion and Contact InformationSend us a textIf you submit a question to us and we use it in an episode, we will send you an official The Dividend Mailbox Yeti® Tumbler -> Email us at ethan@growmydollar.com.Notes & Resources:DCM Investment Reports & ModelsVisit our website to learn more about our investment strategy and wealth management services.Follow us on:Instagram - Facebook - LinkedIn - TwitterIf you enjoy the show, we'd greatly appreciate it if you subscribe and leave a review

Alberto Nicheli is the Founder of the travel operator, TransAfrica. For the last 40 years, Alberto, who was born in Italy, has made the West African nation of Togo his home. He knows Africa intimately, having done his first Trans-Sahara expedition in 1972 and having developed an expertise on West African tribes and art. Over the decades, he's shared his knowledge with authors and filmmakers who want to better understand that part of the world. Our conversation with Alberto took place in a very lively New York City restaurant while he was in town for the Travel & Adventure Show. In our chat we cover everything from voodoo to photography to TransAfrica's 55 day Great Expedition, to tribal Africa, to some unexpected destinations to visit in West Africa (including Liberia and Ivory Coast), to my upcoming trip to Guinea Bissau with TransAfrica, and a whole lot more.  We begin with Alberto sharing his one way ticket to scouting in West Africa. He features how scouting is an “artistic way of doing things”, how he breaks the ice when approaching a village for the first time, and how for him “adventure is culture”. Plus, Alberto offers why he never scouts without a corkscrew! For information on TransAfrica's fascinating journeys, visit: https://transafrica.biz/en/  

On Daybreak Africa: France will hand back to Ivory Coast its only military base in the west African country in a ceremony on February 20, sources with knowledge of the talks told the French News Agency. The move follows the forced departure of its troops from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, where military-led governments hostile to the former colonial ruler have seized power in recent years. Plus, the UN Secretary General makes a personal appeal for peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, leaders of the Southern African Development Community and the East Africa Community meet Friday to discuss the conflict in eastern DRC. Senegal plans to rename public places once named after French colonial figures. Some NGOs that work with HIV-positive communities in South Africa are in limbo, after Washington puts a 90-day freeze on aid. Darfuri women face sexual violence in war and refuge. For these and more, tune in to Daybreak Africa!

In this ImpactVest podcast, Flora Espiand, co-founder of Cozy Connect, shares her journey and inspiration behind creating a platform that bridges the gap in accessing trusted, skilled services in the Ivory Coast. Growing up in a community-oriented household and witnessing local challenges, she co-founded Cozy Connect to empower local talent, foster economic growth, and simplify service accessibility. With plans for expansion across West Africa and a focus on innovation and socio-economic development, Cozy Connect aims to transform how communities connect, building trust, opportunity, and lasting impact.

He's small, cute and viral: the baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, housed in a Thai zoo, has become the star of millions of posts, memes and videos around the world. But in the wild, the pygmy hippopotamus is on the brink of extinction. Of the 2,500 remaining specimens, the majority live in Taï National Park in Ivory Coast, the largest – and one of the last – primary forests in West Africa. A diverse reserve stretching over 4,500 kilometres, its territory is endangered by numerous threats, including illegal gold panning. FRANCE 24's Julia Guggenheim, Damien Koffi and Tom Canetti report.

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Hey, soccer fans! Do you feel like dancing? Amidst the Neymar transfer talk, the Chicago Fire have signed winger Jonathan Bamba to a Designated Player contract. Bamba comes to the Fire after two season with La Liga side Celta de Vigo, previously playing in Belgium and France. The Ivory Coast international will play a key role in providing service to Hugo Cuypers and sparking the Fire's attack. Our host also updates you on the latest in the Neymar transfer saga. Will he end up with Chicago or return to his boyhood club Santos? Or is Neymar trying to tank the talks with the Men in Red to open the door for him to sign with Inter Miami and reunite with Barcelona teammates Leo Messi and Luis Suarez? Finally, we wrap the show by looking at Brian Gutierrez performance in his first call-up for the USMNT, a 73 minute "safe" performance against Venezuela. Hopefully, this is the first of many for the Fire homegrown. Tune in and join the conversation! Make sure you like & subscribe, rate & review, and keep growing the show. Follow the Fire on SportSpyder. Connect on social media: Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - YouTube

Get ready for an insightful discussion with Dr. Gerald Horne, the renowned African and African American History Professor from the University of Houston! He will be live in our studio, diving into urgent topics such as the California wildfires, climate change, and global issues affecting Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Somalia, Cameroon, and Cuba. Dr. Horne will shine a light on the hypocrisy in Syria, commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, and explore key discussions surrounding the NFL and NBA. Before Dr. Horne takes the mic, we’ll introduce a vibrant group of Black literary creators who are making waves in the publishing industry. Learn More About The 54 Countries of Africa 12 Highly Anticipated Books Releasing In 2025 Famous Quotes To Live By From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Big Show starts at 6 am ET, 5 am CT, 3 am PT, and 11 am BST Listen Live on WOL 95.9 FM & 1450 AM, woldcnews.com, the WOL DC NEWS app, WOLB 1010 AM or wolbbaltimore.com. Call 800 450 7876 to participate on The Carl Nelson Show! Tune in every morning to join the conversation and learn more about issues impacting our community. All programs are available for free on your favorite podcast platform. Follow the programs on Twitter & Instagram and watch your Black Ideas come to life!✊

On Washington Wednesday, the peaceful transfer of power; on World Tour, news from Ivory Coast, Montenegro, Indonesia, and Colombia; and Portland residents hire private security. Plus, a driverless car malfunctions, commentator Anne Kennedy on praying for our neighbors, and the Wednesday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.Additional support comes from Commuter Bible, the work-week audio Bible in four annual plans. Available via podcast app and commuterbible.org

Started 2025 by looking at that mass shooting in Montenegro, and then talked about the Ivory Coast wanting the French army gone. Plus New Orleans truck terror, Green Beret blows up cybertruck at Trump hotel Vegas, South Korea prez drama, Iraqi terrorist fights extradition to Iraq, and a Japanese guy was sitting in a chair when it collapsed; metal shard penetrates his rectum. Music: Nirvana/“I hate myself and want to die.” ‘

Ivory Coast has confirmed, French troops stationed in the region for decades, will begin withdrawing from Ivorian soil this month. This marks another shift in the growing trend across West Africa, where France is seeing a reduction in their military presence.  An analyst explains  the genesis of this resentment.Also, French President Emmanuel Macron was recently heckled during his visit to cyclone-hit Mayotte.  What's France's relationship with Mayotte?And will the rights of the Kua people in Botswana, also known as Bushmen, be better under new President Boko Duma's government ? Presenter: Audrey Brown Producer: Sunita Nahar in London Technical Producer: Jack Graysmark Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard

Listen to the Wed. Jan. 1, 2025 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the recent vehicular, shooting and bombing attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas; the new administration in Senegal and government in Ivory Coast have called for the withdrawal of foreign military forces; Kenya President William Ruto has acknowledged the disappearance of activists in the East African state; and over one million doses of cholera vaccines have reached the Republic of South Sudan. In the second and third hours we review events in West Asia from Palestine and Lebanon to other areas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country would not allow Russia to "earn additional billions on our blood" after stopping Russian gas transit to the EU following the expiration of a five-year deal.Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military stake of the former colonial power in the region. Leanna Byrne asks if this also means it will lose economic influence. And with US President-elect Donald Trump set to take office later this month, could his policies favour Indian businesses?

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What is “ Ivoirité ” ? We explore this controversial concept and its effects as Ivory Coast prepares for general election in 2025. Also, why women in Morocco are welcoming a review of child custody, divorce, and polygamy law, and why dolls aren't just dolls- find out how they can affect a child's behaviour in later life.

Thousands of Sudanese Christians face Christmas away from home as the Sudan war continues. We hear from one woman who was born into a Muslim family but converted to Christianity, on how her community tries to help those fleeing the war, and how she maintains Christmas traditions despite living in exile in Egypt.We meet one of the young people who was at the forefront of the unprecedented #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests in Kenya. And Ivorian chef Brice Assemian joins us in the studio to discuss and serve up the dish that the UN agency, Unesco, has declared a part of the unique heritage of Ivory Coast.Presenter Audrey Brown Producers: Rob Wilson and Yvette Twagiramariya in London. Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne Technical Producer: Jack Graysmark. Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi.

‘‘I was a very ambitious young girl, I looked at Margaret Thatcher and Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, and I said well, if they can do it at that level, why not me?'' What and who made you the person you are today? It's a big question and the answer is different for us all. Over the festive period Alan Kasujja will be exploring this subject with people who have gone on to do amazing things in their lives. In the first interview of this special series, Alan speaks to former Senegalese Prime Minister Dr Aminata Toure.As she pursued her education in France and the USA, Aminata was clear in her mind what she wanted to do: champion human and women's rights.Her work on reproductive health in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and later with the United Nations would help her prepare a set of priorities for when her opportunity would come to serve in the government.But it wasn't all work and she loved football and judo - interests her mother worried would stop her from finding a husband.

In the 70s and 80s Ivory Coast's capital Abidjan was a major musical hub in West Africa. After a series of political crises, Abidjan is back. The Zouglou sound of the 1990s and the coupé decalé rage that followed are being reinvented in the era of Afrobeats and African hip-hop. The group Magic System is now invited to play major events in France—including President Macron's election victory party! The group's front man Asalfo has launched an annual music festival in Abidjan, FEMUA. On this program, we attend the festival and hear the sounds and stories of Abidjan's cultural and commercial renaissance.Produced by Elodie Maillot and Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar. APWW #802

Kate Adie introduces stories on Syria, Myanmar, Ivory Coast, the Russian Orthodox church and Tunisia.The threat of being 'disappeared' was central to Bashar al Assad's system of repression and intimidation. Now he is gone, Syrian families want to know what happened to their loved ones. Yogita Limaye met people who've been searching for relatives for years – and who have discovered likely clues at a hospital morgue.BBC Eye has been investigating the role of moles in Myanmar's military - soldiers sharing intelligence with pro-democracy groups. These moles have helped the advance of rebel groups and the balance of power is now shifting, with the military now controlling less than a quarter of the country. Rebecca Henschke tells the story of the 'watermelon spies' - military green on the outside, rebel red on the inside.Chocolate has been one product that has notably suffered from 'shrinkflation' - rising in cost, and shrinking in size. This is in part due to the spiraling cost of cocoa - but not everyone involved in its cultivation is getting rich, as John Murphy discovered when he met farmers in Ivory Coast.The war in Ukraine has been sanctified by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow - head of the Russian Orthodox Church. He's even said Russian soldiers who die on the battlefield will be washed of their sins - but not everyone in the church agrees with this stance. Lucy Ash catches up with one priest risking punishment for speaking out.Tunisia recently hosted the World Morse Code championship – a fiendishly competitive tournament, in which participants are challenged to accurately receive, copy and send coded transmissions as fast as possible. Monica Whitlock went to watch the competitors in action.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production coordinator: Katie Morrison and Sophie Hill Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

The Sirexe “Salon International des Ressources Extractives et Energetiques”  conference took place this week in the Ivory Coast and brought together ministers, policymakers and corporate leaders from across the continent to discuss Africa's energy transition. Géraud led the discussion about China's role in that process, both as a key supplier of new energy technologies like photovoltaic power supplies and electrified mobility and, of course, as a major actor in the critical resources extractive sector in Africa. Also this week, senior U.S. officials briefed the media on President Joe Biden's upcoming trip to Angola. Eric, Cobus, and Géraud discuss the awkward timing of the visit that comes less than two months before Donald Trump returns to the White House and how Angola is now in the middle of the U.S.-China duel in Africa. JOIN THE DISCUSSION: X: @ChinaGSProject | @cgneema | @eric_olander | @stadenesque Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ChinaGlobalSouth Now on Bluesky! Follow CGSP at @chinagsproject.bsky.social FOLLOW CGSP IN FRENCH AND ARABIC: Français: www.projetafriquechine.com | @AfrikChine Arabic: عربي: www.alsin-alsharqalawsat.com | @SinSharqAwsat JOIN US ON PATREON! Become a CGSP Patreon member and get all sorts of cool stuff, including our Week in Review report, an invitation to join monthly Zoom calls with Eric & Cobus, and even an awesome new CGSP Podcast mug! www.patreon.com/chinaglobalsouth