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style="border-width:0px;"/> </div> <div class="fr"> <h2>COTE D'IVOIRE   </h2> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="leftbodyGlobal"> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblError"></span> <table width="100%"><tr><td><div id="mainstoryphoto"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905162117im_/http://www.irinnews.org/images/2015/201508251540130261.jpg"/></div><a href="/web/20150905162117/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101912/The-lost-childhoods-behind-our-chocolate"><h1>The lost childhoods behind our chocolate</h1></a><p>ABIDJAN, 25 August 2015 (IRIN) - An estimated 1.62 million children are forced to work in Cote d'Ivoire each year. The majority spend their days in cocoa fields, cultivating the beans that will eventually become chocolate. <a href="/web/20150905162117/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101912/The-lost-childhoods-behind-our-chocolate" class="bodylinks" style="font-weight:bold;">full report</a></p></div></td></tr></table> <div style="background-color: #f0f5f9; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0;"> <div class="fl" style="margin: 5px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905162117im_/http://www.irinnews.org/images/2015/201507211709010199t.jpg"/></div> <div class="fl" style="width: 410px; padding: 5px;"> <a href="/web/20150905162117/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101773/Three-concerns-ahead-of-Côte-d-Ivoire-poll"><h3> Three concerns ahead of Côte d’Ivoire poll</h3></a> ABIDJAN, 21 July 2015 (IRIN) - Five years after Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed presidential election threw the country into turmoil and left more than 3,000 dead, its people are set to go to the polls again. 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