benin: cotton fuelling child labour

Eighteen-year-old Gnoulla Yempabou started as a farmhand in cotton fields in Benin, when he arrived from neighbouring Burkina Faso a few years ago. Now, Yempabou has his eyes on other business: he is slowly becoming interested in joining the child-trafficking racket. The work is less backbreaking and the profit is good. Statistics on child labour, as well as on child trafficking, varies in Benin. Some rights groups put the figure to as high as 150 000.