{"id":30215,"date":"2016-11-11T02:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ivory-coast-bans-sale-of-alcohol-sachets\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T02:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T02:18:36","slug":"ivory-coast-bans-sale-of-alcohol-sachets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ivory-coast-bans-sale-of-alcohol-sachets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast bans sale of alcohol sachets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Ivory Coast&#8217;s government has banned the production, importation and sale of alcohol in sachets on health grounds.}<\/p>\n<p>The small plastic bags, containing rum, vodka or other spirits, are popular with those on a budget &#8211; costing between $0.35 (\u00a30.28) and $1.65.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was aimed at minimising the impact of alcohol on young people, especially students, government spokesman Bruno Kone said.<\/p>\n<p>A ban on the sale of water in plastic bags led to protests two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They were banned by the Ivorian authorities in a bid to reduce pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to ban the sachets of alcohol was taken after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday and had been proposed by the ministry of commerce, Mr Kone said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These products are mostly smuggled into the country,&#8221; the APA news agency quotes him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do not meet our standards and therefore constitute a real threat to the health of consumers &#8211; and a threat to the country&#8217;s economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon, Malawi and Senegal have also banned the sale and production of alcohol in sachets in recent years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16336 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92380817_alex.jpg\" alt=\"Some of these sachets in Abidjan are locally made, others are imported from Ghana and India\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ivory Coast&#8217;s government has banned the production, importation and sale of alcohol in sachets on health grounds.} The small plastic bags, containing rum, vodka or other spirits, are popular with those on a budget &#8211; costing between $0.35 (\u00a30.28) and $1.65. The ban was aimed at minimising the impact of alcohol on young people, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30215"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30215"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}