Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A report says West Africa's cocoa industry is still trafficking children and using forced child labor despite nearly a decade of efforts to eliminate the practices.
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AMSTERDAM - Oil trading company Trafigura was fined 1 million ($1.28 million) Friday for exporting hazardous waste that allegedly left 15 people dead and thousands ill in Ivory Coast.
AMSTERDAM - Oil trading company Trafigura was fined euro1 million ($1.28 million) Friday for exporting hazardous waste that allegedly left 15 people dead and thousands ill in Ivory Coast.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch prosecutors accused Trafigura AG of putting profits ahead of safety at the start of the company's criminal trial Tuesday, saying the oil trader hid hazardous waste in a ship that docked in Amsterdam in 2006 and then exported it illegally.
