Africa to complain over cotton subsidies. (Agriculture).

Cotton growing countries in central and west Africa have united to meet threats posed by subsidies developed nations pay to their own producers. Noting that subsidies to cotton growers in the United States will total $173bn for the next decade, Cote d'Ivoire Agriculture Minister, Sebastian Dano Djedje, says Africa "must fight to save our cotton sector to ensure that the new international economic order plays according to equal rules". The 20-country bloc, representing around 10m people dependent on cotton production, is to present a complaint, the Abidjan Memorandum, at the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).