The police to help children illegally employed in the cocoa sector
According to a report by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) Foundation, child labor increased by almost 20% in Côte d'Ivoire between mid-March and mid-May, when schools closed. More generally, the phenomenon has been on the rise for ten years, according to NGOs, but the Ivorian government wants to show its progress in the fight against child labor.
as reported from Abidjan,
Police said they had rescued eleven children and two youths who were working illegally in cocoa plantations in the southwestern part of the…