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Ivory Coast jails child traffickers

Ivory Coast jails child traffickers

TWENTY-two people accused of trafficking children to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast have received prison sentences of up to 20 years, prosecutors have announced. The case follows the rescue by police this month of 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom had been transported from neighbouring Burkina Faso, according to the Ivorian authorities. Ivory Coast is the world's top cocoa producer and is under pressure, including from the European Union, to crack down on practices that have led to nearly 1 million children working in the sector. The police operation was the first since 2014 to…
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