Live Breaking News & Updates on Luc Zaka

Stay updated with breaking news from Luc zaka. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Ivorian police rescue 68 children being used on cocoa farms

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. ....

Coted Ivoire , Burkina Faso , Bas Sassandra , Côd Ivoire General , Ivory Coast , Luc Zaka , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , தந்தம் கடற்கரை ,

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


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. ....

Bas Sassandra , Coted Ivoire , Burkina Faso , Ivory Coast , Luc Zaka , Kouassi Kouakou Franck , Alexandre Kone , National Surveillance Committee , Tulane University , University Of Chicago , World Bank , Children Reception Centre In Soubre , West African , Alain Didier Lath Mel , Reception Centre , Lath Mel , Eduardo Soteras Cocoa , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , தந்தம் கடற்கரை , தேசிய கண்காணிப்பு குழு , துலேன் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் சிகாகோ , உலகம் வங்கி , வரவேற்பு மையம் ,

Ivory Coast police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms


AfricaIvory Coast police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms
Reuters
2 minute read
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. ....

Coted Ivoire , Bas Sassandra , Burkina Faso , Ivory Coast , Luc Zaka , Ibrahima Coulibaly , Thomson Reuters Trust Principles , Police In Ivory Coast , European Union , West African , Thomson Reuters Trust , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , தந்தம் கடற்கரை , தாம்சன் ராய்ட்டர்ஸ் நம்பிக்கை ப்ரிந்ஸிபல்ஸ் , போலீஸ் இல் தந்தம் கடற்கரை , ஐரோப்பிய தொழிற்சங்கம் , தாம்சன் ராய்ட்டர்ஸ் நம்பிக்கை ,

Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast


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. ....

Coted Ivoire , Bas Sassandra , Burkina Faso , Ivory Coast , Luc Zaka , Ibrahima Coulibaly , Police In Ivory Coast , European Union , West African , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , தந்தம் கடற்கரை , போலீஸ் இல் தந்தம் கடற்கரை , ஐரோப்பிய தொழிற்சங்கம் ,