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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

NEWS
ANGE ABOA 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. "I've been working in…
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Oct
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Child labour rising in West Africa cocoa farms despite efforts – report

Child labour rising in West Africa cocoa farms despite efforts – report

HUMAN RIGHTS
ANGE ABOA and AARON ROSS THE use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, academics said, largely supporting earlier findings that were questioned by both states. The prevalence of children doing hazardous work, including using sharp tools, has also gone up in the world's top two cocoa producers, according to the study funded by the U.S. government. The levels were higher than in 2010 when companies including Mars, Hershey, Nestle and Cargill agreed to reduce the worst forms of child labour in Ghana and…
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