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IVORY COAST - WAIVED ONCE AND FOR ALL

By Aya Ehouman · 4 parts · 14 h 24 min · English

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Abidjan, 2002 to 2026. In the world's largest cocoa producer, the farmers' levies paid for a war, a chocolate factory in New York and a cocoa chief's barbed wire, while the state kept selling, waiving or pardoning its right to punish. It signed away, once and for all, its right to prosecute the trader whose waste poisoned its capital; it let convicted men walk out of court; it made rebel commanders colonels without asking where the money went. Then cocaine came through the port, and officers paid to stop it were convicted of joining in. Covers Trafigura and Compagnie Tommy, Laurent Gbagbo and the cocoa regulation funds, Guillaume Soro and the Forces Nouvelles, Amadé Ouérémi, and Miguel Ángel Devesa Mera and Armand Agnin Angbonon.

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  1. Part 01

    3:35:35

  2. Part 02

    3:19:57

  3. Part 03

    3:08:34

  4. Part 04

    4:20:04

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