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Child Trafficking in West Africa

Children in West Africa are being trafficked at an alarming rate, often sold by their own families. Many of these children are then forced to work as manual laborers or as domestic servants without pay. Aid workers say poverty and the breakdown of traditional families are to blame. Kari Barber has this report from the West African nation of Guinea where the number of abandoned children, aid workers say, is on the rise.

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