Tons of Cocoa Beans Are Piling Up in Nigerian Ports

Local villagers work on their cocoa farm in Abo village near Ikom, Nigeria.

Bloomberg

Now 2020 is coming for our chocolate.

In Nigeria, efforts to claw back some of the foreign-exchange earnings lost to falling oil prices are causing delays in exports ranging from cocoa beans to cashew nuts, and adding to a problem that the central bank sought to address in the first place.