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Delegates at a forum on child labor said Wednesday that nearly 80 million children in Africa are forced to work - some as prostitutes or miners - creating one of the world's most serious child labor problems. And the number of these child laborers - children 5 to 14 years old - could rise to 100 million by 2015, said Tim De Meyer of the International Labor Organization, a Geneva-based U.N. agency.