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Hidden slavery behind your weekly shop with kids as young as 6 sold for £210 & fishermen murdered by crews
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Updated: 2 Feb 2021, 11:21
WITH an aching back, and hunger pangs ripping through his stomach, 15-year-old Abou Traore uses a heavy machete to hack through the dense brush of a cocoa plantation.
The teenager, who has been working long hours on the farm since the age of ten, is one of 16,000 children forced into child labour in West Africa - so that Brits can enjoy their favourite chocolate bars.
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A nine-year-old child pictured by Unicef working with a machete on a cocoa farmCredit: Mirrorpix