Saki, Nigeria, Sept 10, 2025 (AFP) - Promising growth, Nigeria shea nut export ban pinches producers

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While sorting through the brown nuts she had collected from the leafy shea trees near her home in Saki, southwestern Nigeria, Adija Rahman was scathing of the government's plans to transform her industry. Africa's most populous country produces roughly 40 percent of the world's supply of shea nuts, used to make shea butter, a key ingredient in soaps, lotions and cosmetics. But the west African nation is at the bottom of the supply chain, exportin......

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