Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

According to World Bank trade data and Nigeria’s export council, over 60% of Nigeria’s cocoa heads to Europe and about 8% to the U.S. and Canada.

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S.

Kehinde Kumayon and his assistant clear low bushes that compete for sunlight with their cocoa trees, which have 

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