November 2011
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Nestle 'to act over child labour in cocoa industry' →
bbc.co.uk
Global food giant Nestle says it has taken a major step to end child labour on cocoa farms supplying its factories.
The firm, one of the world’s largest chocolate producers, says it is going to work with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) on tackling the problem.
The FLA is set to examine Nestle’s cocoa supply chains in Ivory Coast in January, the firm said in a statement.
Critics ask why it has taken Nestle so long to act if it knew children were involved in its cocoa production.
(Humphrey Hawksley for BBC)
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U.S. Troops To Stay In Uganda Until Kony Is Found
WASHINGTON: About 100 US troops that President Barack Obama ordered to Uganda last month to help crush the Lord’s Resistance Army will probably remain deployed until the group’s leader is captured or dead, the top US commander for Africa has said.
The head of the US military’s Africa Command, Army General Carter Ham, said most of the American forces have landed in Uganda and are starting to co-ordinate the efforts of four central African countries as they comb a huge expanse of jungle for Joseph Kony, the messianic founder of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
