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About 2 000 children have been taken out of cocoa plantations since 2019, according to the National Surveillance Committee, which aims at combatting child labour and trafficking.
Top Cocoa Grower Raids Cocoa Farms as New EU Legislation Looms
Leanne de Bassompierre, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg)
Authorities in Ivory Coast rescued 68 children during a two-day swoop on farms in the heart of the countryâs cocoa belt as the worldâs top producer of the key chocolate ingredient prepares for stricter European sustainability laws set to be introduced later this year.
Police also arrested 24 others during the raid on May 6 and 7 in the southwestern town of Soubre, prosecutor Alexandre Kone said on Friday. The operation was funded by the National Committee for the Monitoring of Actions to Combat Child Trafficking, Exploitation and Labor, which is led by First Lady Dominique Ouattara.