Many of the children are illiterate, capable of going back to the classroom or learning a trade. But instead find themselves being used illegally for work. Ivory Coast faces mounting demands from western consumers for ethical chocolate, a product that is free of child labor.
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AfricaIvory Coast police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms
Reuters
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A farmer walks in a cocoa farm in Bobia, Gagnoa, Ivory Coast, December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon
Police in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from neighbouring Burkina Faso, authorities said.
The West African country is the world s top cocoa producer and has close to 1 million children working in the sector despite years of efforts to end child labour.
At a care centre in the southwestern region of Soubre, one of the rescued children told Reuters his father had brought him from Burkina Faso at the age of 13 to work on his uncle s cocoa plantation and had left him there.
Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast
News24
11 May 2021, 00:11 GMT+10
Police in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from neighbouring Burkina Faso, authorities said.
The West African country is the world s top cocoa producer and has close to 1 million children working in the sector despite years of efforts to end child labour.
At a care centre in the southwestern region of Soubre, one of the rescued children told Reuters his father had brought him from Burkina Faso at the age of 13 to work on his uncle s cocoa plantation and had left him there.