Talk:Cocoa production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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A fact from Cocoa production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the European Union cannot certify the quality of cocoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of armed conflict in the country? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cocoa production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here.No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by JuniperChill talk 12:43, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that cocoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as a "conflict commodity"?

• Source: Bojang, Sheriff, Jr. "How cocoa became a conflict commodity in eastern DRC". The Africa Report. Retrieved 19 July 2025.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Industrialisation in Africa

Created by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 38 past nominations.

Yue🌙 03:39, 14 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Yue, as the article is subscriber-only, could you please provide a quote for "conflict commodity" from the relevant part of the article and I will AGF accept it. Note that if the quote "conflict commodity" comes from the headline, that is not acceptable per WP:HEADLINE. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:40, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @AirshipJungleman29: I lost access recently and my attempt to resubscribe just now failed. I will think of a different hook shortly and comment out the sentence in the article for now. Yue🌙 20:17, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Small comment that November 2015-present articles from The Africa Report are accessible at The Wikipedia Library under Gale OneFile: News. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 01:13, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Rollinginhisgrave: Thank you for that tip, I appreciate it. Yue🌙 05:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• @AirshipJungleman29: Here's a new hook:
  • ALT1: ... that the European Union cannot certify the quality of cocoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of armed conflict in the country?
  • Source: Adewole, Segun (15 March 2025). "Armed groups covet cocoa in eastern DR Congo". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 14 August 2025 – via The Guardian. But further north in Beni, cocoa, whose prices have soared on the world market in the last two years, also stokes the violence. Massacres committed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, have left thousands dead and prevented cocoa farmers from accessing their plantations for years. ... But the violence is also threatening its organic status. The European Union recently threatened to no longer recognise the label on local products, as insecurity prevents certification by inspectors.
• A little wordier, but the same idea. I included a quote from the source this time in case access is affected again. Yue🌙 23:26, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• @AirshipJungleman29: Thanks to Rollinginhisgrave I was able to gain access to the ALT0 source again. It seems I was mistaken and the term "conflict commodity" is not repeated in the source's body. Hopefully ALT1 above or ALT2 below is just as interesting. Yue🌙 05:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • ALT2: ... that cocoa exports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew over a hundred-fold from 600 tonnes in 2000 to 63,971 tonnes in 2023?
  • Sources:
    • Nieburg, Oliver (19 July 2017). "Cocoa in the Congo: Emerging origin for organic chocolate makers". Confectionery News. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2025. The Democratic Republic of Congo [sic] (DRC) exported just 600 MT of cocoa in 2000 ...
    • Bojang, Sheriff, Jr. "How cocoa became a conflict commodity in eastern DRC". The Africa Report. Retrieved 14 August 2025. In 2023, DRC exported about 63,971 metric tonnes of cocoa, worth $144.5m, up from $109m in 2022.
      • ALT1 approved, ALT2 is a bit dull. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:07, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]