Kumba, Cameroon News

Dried cocoa beans are packed in hessian sacks on a cocoa farm near Amankwakram in Western Ghana on the border with Ivory coast February 14, 2011.

Biochar is touted as a solution to climate change, soil degradation and low crop yields, despite scientific field trials disproving these claims.

An easing of rains in the world's fifth-largest grower has also improved bean drying operations and made upcountry roads more passable - increasing the amount of export-ready cocoa available to the market.

The entire South West Region is calm. The calm atmosphere has been reigning before and after declaration of the 9th October presidential election results on Friday 21st October.

Cameroon's presidential election will take place on October 9, 2011, but the lack ofA stake [fr] in the outcome felt by the general population isA leading to a lack of interest [fr]. The election marks the grand finaleA of a tumultuous political cycle started in February 2008.