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Jacqueline is affected by rising costs
There's barely a corner of the world not affected in some way by the rising price of basic food. In the last year the prices of wheat, rice and maize have nearly doubled.
Despite government promises in Ivory Coast prices don't seem to be coming down.
Our reporter in the commercial capital Abidjan, John James, spent a morning with several women in the suburb of Koumassi, to find out what impact the price rises are having there.
Listen Hear the Outlook Report (first broadcast on 24th April 2008)
Not surprisingly, increases in food prices are being most felt in the poorest parts of the world where the majority of people's budgets are spent on food. In West Africa alone there have been protests in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Cameroon. In Ivory Coast, women recently took to the streets for two days. They were dispersed by tear gas and live rounds, leaving at least one young person dead.
See a photo gallery of the women from Koumassi
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