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(KRT9) ATTENTION EDITORS EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Aly Diabate, 15, shows his scars in his village of Sirikasso, Mali, April 27, 2001. Aly worked on Lenipko Yeo's farm in the Ivory Coast. Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means "The Big Man." His arm bears faded scars from beatings he received while working on the farm and from the machete he used to clear the fields. (KRT) AP NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/Newscom or upon request)
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FOR USE WITH 2001 YEAREND PHOTO PACKAGE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (December 21) BANGOLO, IVORY COAST -- Lenikpo Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means "The Big Man," carries a gun while walking with his own children and nephews, who are carrying lumber back to the farm house, on Le Gros' farm near Bangolo, in the Ivory Coast, June 4, 2001. Le Gros had 19 Malian children working on his farm before he was arrested by the government and forced to pay the children for their work. (KRT) NC 2001 (Horiz) (kn)
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FOR USE WITH 2001 YEAREND PHOTO PACKAGE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (December 21) BANGOLO, IVORY COAST -- Fousseny Cisse, 15, clears fields on a cocoa farm in the Ivory Coast, on April 21, 2001. Cisse has been working on the farm for 10 months, far from his home and family in Sikasso, Mali. (KRT) NC 2001 (Horiz) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Sekou Coulibay, 18, from Mali, front, and Lanzeni cone, 18, from the Ivory Coast, stand in the doorway of their small, mud hut they share on a cocoa farm near Bediala, Ivory Coast. Sekou Coulibay was trafficked from Mali. Many youth are trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso to work on farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor in the Ivory Coast. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Vendors and passengers mingle outside the bus station in Sikasso, Mali, April, 27, 2001. The bus station is where many Malian youth are lured to work in the cocoa and coffee farms in the Ivory Coast. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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(KRT2) -- ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED:SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) A worker at SOCOPAD, the Society of Commercial and Agricultural Producers of Daloa, moves heavy bags of cocoa beans at a warehouse in Daloa, Ivory Coast, April 23, 2001. Forty-three percent of the world's cocoa beans come from small farms in this poor West African country. And on some of the farms boys who were sold or tricked into slavery do most of the work. (KRT) AP NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/Newscom or upon request)
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(KRT5) ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Zei Mathias, 15, from Bobodioulasso in Burkina Faso sleeps on a bench near the mosque in Daloa, Ivory Coast, April 22, 2001. Mathias was taken by a friend of his family and sold for approximately $110 (80,000CFA) to a plantation owner. He now tries to earn money carrying luggage around the Daloa mosque and spends his nights on this bench. (KRT) AP NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) A worker at SOCOPAD, the Society of Commercial and Agricultural Producers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, stands next to sacks of coffee beans at the company's warehouse April 23, 2001. SOCOPAD is one of the biggest coffee/cocoa buyers in the Ivory Coast. Youth trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso work on cocoa farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Workers at SOCOPAD, the Society of Commercial and Agricultural Producers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, collect and bag cocoa beans April 26, 2001. SOCOPAD is one of the biggest coffee and cocoa buyers in the Ivory Coast. Youth, trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso, work on farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED:SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) A worker at SOCOPAD, the Society of Commercial and Agricultural Producers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, sifts through cocoa beans at the company's warehouse April 23, 2001. SOCOPAD is one of the biggest coffee/cocoa buyers in the Ivory Coast. Youth trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso work on farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) A deed showing the work contract between Mamadou Togola, 16, and his owner Sekango Vagalourou from the Bonufla farm in the Ivory Coast, April 22, 2001. After one year of work, Togola is supposed to receive a sum of 130,000 CFA (US$170.00) minus traveling expenses paid by the owner. It is unlikely Togola will ever see a penny. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-COFFEE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) A young boy sits in front of a Nescafe billboard in Daloa, Ivory Coast, June 8, 2001, where chocolate isn't the only American staple that is tainted by slavery. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-RESCUE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Drissa Diarra, 46, a member of the Malian committee of Daloa, Ivory Coast, works to free inslaved youth working on cocoa and coffee farms in the Ivory Coast, June 10, 2001. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-RESCUE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) June 10, 2001 - Sanon Soro, the farm owner of Mombi Bakayoko, on his farm in Bediala, Ivory Coast, June 10, 2001. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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(KRT4) ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Siaka Cisse, 60, is a key middleman in the trafficking of slave labor and is seen here in Daloa, Ivory Coast, April 23, 2001. Traffickers bring as many as 10 boys a month to Cisse. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/Newscom or upon request)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Mamadou Togola, 16, stands in a field at dusk following a long days work on a cocoa farm in the Ivory Coast, April 25, 2001. Togola is from a village in Mali near Sikasso. Youth, trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso, work on farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) The work pants and tools of Mamadou Togola, 16, at the end of the work day on a cocoa farm in the Ivory Coast, April 21, 2001. Youth, trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso, work farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) June 9,2001 - Siaka Traure, 16, left, and Brahima Male, 14, sleep on the bed they share in their mud-brick hut on Dote Coulibaly's farm in the Ourouta area of the Ivory Coast, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Brahima Male, 14, left, and Siaka Traure, 16, eat a meal of corn gruel by light of a lantern after working in the fields of planter, Dote Coulibaly, in the Ourouta area of the Ivory Coast, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Brahima Male, 14, works on Dote Coulibaly's farm in the Ourata area of the Ivory Coast, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Dote Coulibaly, owner of a farm in the Ourouta region of the Ivory Coast where slave laborers Siaka Traure, 16, and Brahima Malefarm, 14, work, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Siaka Traure,16, left,works alongside his master Dote Coulibaly planting cotton on Coulibaly's farm in the Ourata area of the Ivory Coast, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Brahima Male, 14, left, and Siaka Traure, 16, plant cotton on Dote Coulibaly's farm in the Ourata area of the Ivory Coast, June 9, 2001. Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys like Brahima and Siaka who were tricked into slavery to do the harvesting. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS CORRECTED CAPTION: ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Mamadou Traore, 19, at home in his village in Mali. Like many other young Malian boys, Traore left his home seeking work in the Ivory Coast, only to end up working as a slave on a cocoa plantation. Traori worked on Lenikpo Yeo's farm, also known as Le Gros, which means the "The Big Man," (KRT) NC KD BL (Horiz.) (kn)
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ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE IS ALSO USABLE WITH SLAVERY-RESCUE-- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Mombi Bakayoko, 15-years-old, holds pods containing cocoa beans on a farm near Bediala, Ivory Coast, April 22, 2001. Forty-three percent of the world's cocoa beans come from small farms in this poor West African country, where on some of the farms, boys who were sold or tricked into slavery do most of the work. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE IS ALSO USABLE WITH SLAVERY-RESCUE --
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Lenikpo Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means the "The Big Man," holds pods containing cocoa beans on his farm near Bangolo, in the Ivory Coast. Le Gros had 19 Malian children working on his farm before he was arrested by the Ivorian government and forced to pay the children for their work. (KRT) NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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(KRT8) ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Lenikpo Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means the "The Big Man," walks on his farm near Bangolo, in the Ivory Coast, June 4, 2001. Le Gros had 19 Malian children working on his farm before he was arrested by the Ivorian government and forced to pay the children for their work. (KRT) AP NC KD BL 2001 (Vert.) (kn) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/Newscom or upon request)
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(KRT6) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE IS ALSO USABLE WITH SLAVERY-RESCUE -- ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Mombi Bakayoko, 15, in his room with a tiny window for air and light on the cocoa farm, where he worked for nearly a year, near Bediala, Ivory Coast, April 22, 2001. (KRT) AP NC BL KD 2001 (Horiz.) (kn) (Additional photos available on KRT Direct, KRT/Newscom or upon request) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE IS ALSO USABLE WITH SLAVERY-RESCUE --
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ATTENTION EDITORS: EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 -- KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SLAVERY-MAIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/KRT (June 21) Sekou Coulibay, 18, from Mali, left, and Lanzeni Cone, 18, from the Ivory Coast, sit on the dirt floor of the small mud hut they share on a cocoa farm near Bediala, Ivory Coast. Sekou Coulibay was trafficked from Mali. Many youth are trafficked from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso to work on farms that grow coffee and cocoa as slave labor in the Ivory Coast. (KRT) NC BL KD 2001 (Vert.) (kn)
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