Feature: Child labor remains menacing problem for Zambia


LUSAKA, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Zambian police recently retrieved five teenagers at a farm in Mumbwa district of Central Province where they were forced to work, revealing the serious problem of child labor in the country.

According to Central Province Police Commissioner David Chileshe, the five boys were among 13 boys aged between 13 and 17 years who were suspected to have been trafficked from Western Province and were being used as cheap labor in soya beans and maize fields.

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