When the UN imposed sanctions on diamond exports from Liberia in 2001 the president Charles Taylor - who is now standing trial for crimes against humanity in The Hague - plundered his country's forests to bankroll his brutal, cross-border wars. Now another West African conflict is being funded by yet another commodity beloved in the West: chocolate. ( CS Monitor)
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Trouble Brews Over Chocolate
Category: Food&Drink
Posted on: July 17, 2007 11:17 AM, by EJGili
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