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Millions of African children working on commercial farms are at high risk of death and injury. Regional experts say governments must act to reduce the number of child labourers. About 70 percent of the world's 250 million child labourers work on farms, and it is common to find children employed on coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar cane, cotton and other plantations in Africa, a child labour conference in Ethiopia heard.