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In Chagai District (~49km from the mine), the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) confirmed a $25 million investment in the Reko Diq project, signaling long-term commitment despite immediate volatility Profit by Pakistan Today. However, the security environment in the wider corridor is kinetic; Pakistani security forces killed 14 BLA militants during a major clearance operation in Ornach (~314km from the mine), located immediately adjacent to the critical N-25 supply highway Pakistan Connect. The N-25 supply route remains effectively blocked or highly dangerous due to the Ornach operation and insurgent attacks. In Surab (~280km from the mine), an IED destroyed a police armored vehicle, confirming the high threat to logistics convoys TBP Balochi. The Chaman border crossing (~436km from the mine) is a conflict zone following Pakistan's declaration of 'open war' and subsequent airstrikes on Taliban targets in Afghanistan Daily Sabah. [Full analysis available for customers]

On March 4, Ivory Coast officially slashed its mid-crop farmgate cocoa price by 57% to 1,200 FCFA/kg, responding to the global market crash that saw ICE futures drop below $3,000/ton Jeune Afrique. This regional shockwave coincides with ONCC data from March 3 confirming a historic market inversion in Cameroon, where robusta coffee (2,074 FCFA/kg FOB) now trades at a premium over cocoa (1,521 FCFA/kg FOB) Investir au Cameroun. Local farmers report severe distress on social media, citing farmgate prices plummeting to 750-800 FCFA/kg in rural areas. Despite the global price collapse, Cameroon is aggressively expanding its domestic processing and logistics capacity. On February 27, the government laid the foundation for a new 32,000-tonne cocoa processing plant by Samen Industry in Baré Bakem, pushing national processing capacity above 80% of total production Investir au Cameroun. Concurrently, on February 26, the Port Authority of Kribi officially launched the €795 million Kribi Port Industrial Zone (KPIZ), aiming to drastically enhance local raw material transformation Ecofin Agency. Security conditions remain highly volatile across multiple fronts. On March 3, Belgian authorities detained three suspected leaders of the Ambazonia Defence Forces for alleged war crimes, a development that could trigger retaliatory ghost towns in the Anglophone cocoa belt Mimi Mefo Info. In the Littoral region, a fatal tanker truck explosion in the Yassa industrial suburb of Douala on February 27 killed one person and destroyed numerous vehicles, temporarily disrupting the logistics corridor 237online. [Full analysis available for customers]