I.Coast's cocoa sector faces relentless struggle with child

I.Coast's cocoa sector faces relentless struggle with child labour
AFP
3 days ago
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An Ivorian police officer walks in search of children working in cocoa plantations
Twenty minutes into his meeting with a social worker after being picked up by police, 15-year-old Issouf wrings his hands and admits it: he has been working on a cocoa plantation.
The scrawny lad is one of an army of youngsters who forego school to provide cheap labour for farmers in Ivory Coast, the world's top producer of the cacao bean.
Police had netted Issouf and 67 other children in a crackdown in Soubre, the country's cocoa-producing heartland 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of the economic capital Abidjan.

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