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DAKAR, Senegal — Police raids have rescued 33 West Africans from a human trafficking ring in Ivory Coast that lured people into paying fees and providing coerced labor by promising them jobs in ...
Jean Mari Konan Yao says he’s struggling as a cocoa farmer in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate.
Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.