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Efforts too Small to curb Child Labour on…11.10.2022
Nicolas Colombant/IRIN) Despite an international outcry in 2000 over child exploitation on West African cocoa farms, and ambitious efforts by governments since then to regulate the industry, very little has changed for an estimated 284,000 child…
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The lost Childhood behind our Chocolate11.10.2022 Alexes Adele
Twelve-year-old Arouna* stands shirtless in a cocoa field in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire holding a hoe, his ribs clearly visible under his dark skin. ABIDJAN … “I have to get up very early each day to be the first in the field with my younger…
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Nigeria: Babies weigh less if the mother…11.10.2022 Musa Kana
Nigerian newborns weigh less if their mothers use biomass fuel - a major health risk … … Musa Kana does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has…
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Ghana: Government to evacuate 431 stranded…11.10.2022 Foreign Affairs Ministry
Govt to evacuate 431 stranded Ghanaians in UAE- Foreign Affairs Ministry … … The Government of Ghana is collaborating with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to evacuate 431 stranded Ghanaians misled by unscrupulous agents who…
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How to liberate the African child from…11.10.2022 Interview by Shimbo Pastory
INTERVIEW: How to liberate the African child from generational flaws … Thursday, June 16, 2022 … Dr. Sacha Hepburn is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London. Summary … • Today being the International Day of the African…
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Kenya: How Kafala system in Arab Gulf States…11.10.2022 John Kamau
Ms. Diana Chepkemoi (right), a former domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, is hugged by Ms. Rose Lang’at, a senior Bomet County Government official, upon her arrival from Riyadh at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on September 6, 2022 … Summary …
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