labour laws: The only sounds in the still air are the whoosh of blades slicing through tall grass and metallic pings when they hit something harder, according to The Independent. Each of the boys crossed the border months or years ago from the impoverished west African nation of Burkina Faso, taking a bus away from home and parents to Ivory Coast, where hundreds of thousands of small farms have been carved out of the forest. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they rarely talk. These farms form the world's most important source of cocoa, and are the setting for an epidemic of child labour that the world's largest chocolate companies promised to eradicate nearly 20 years ago. Under Ivory Coast's labour laws, that would make him legal. How old are you we ask one of the older-looking boys. 19, Abou Traore says in a hushed voice.
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