In Côte d’Ivoire, the daughter-in-law of Henri Konan Bédié dismissed from the head of the union of multinational cocoa companies – Jeune Afrique

The influential union that brings together the multinationals of the cocoa sector has changed number one with the recent appointment of French Lionel Soulard as president. Since 2016, Mariame Francoise Koné Bedie was its main representative as executive director. But the wife of Jean-Luc Bedie, fils of the former Ivorian president Henri Konan Bedie, has paid for the deterioration of its relations with the police of the sector, the Coffee-Cocoa Council (CCC), and certain Ivorian authorities once morest a backdrop of rivalries policies.