Ivory Coast's ruler returns
ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's ailing President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 88, returned home by chartered plane from Geneva, where he had been staying at a clinic for more than six months, AP reports.
March cocoa futures on the London market jumped at one stage by pounds 31 to pounds 1,050 a tonne, on speculation over the health of the President.
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