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I.Coast s cocoa sector faces relentless struggle with child labour AFP 3 days ago © SIA KAMBOU 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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