A national oil strike that would have crippled the world's seventh largest oil exporter has been temporarily averted. Nigeria's main labor union has decided to give that countries government a second chance after it promised to lower domestic fuel prices. Nigeria exports 2.5 million barrels of oil a day and is the fifth-leading supplier of U.S. oil imports. The Nigerian oil workers union had pledged to specifically target Shell Oil in their protest. In other news from Africa, cocoa workers on the Ivory Coast are concerned about their livelihood. The ports in the Ivory Coast ship 40 percent of the world's cocoa and the threat of continued unrest and upheaval has worried traders during the markets main harvest season. Anti-French riots had recently closed the ports for six days.