Seventy-two million African children are estimated to be engaged in child labour, of which 31,5 million are working in hazardous environments, prostitution, and domestic work.

This was said by the National Programme Officer for Gender Responsive and Pro-Employment Budgeting of the UN Population Fund, Natalia Halweendo, at the commemoration of the Day of the African Child.

Halweendo added that although child labour deprives minors of education and childhood, it is a decent course as it is mostly done in helplessness.