By Emeline Wuilbercq, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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ADDIS ABABA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation and meet a pledge to end child labour by 2025.
With school closures, income losses, deepening poverty and limited social services, children across the continent have been forced into work - in gold mines in Mali, cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and hawking on the streets of Uganda. [nL8N2IH56K}