East Africa:   Human Trade Is Alive and Thriving Across East Africa

Citizen, 6 August 2019

Rose (not her name), 24, travelled from Rwanda to Kuwait in 2015 for a job she had been promised by someone she met online. Read more »

Kenya:   Asian Women Trafficked to Bollywood-Style Dance Bars

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 8 August 2019

Nepali beautician Sheela didn't think twice about ditching her salon job when she received a call offering seven times her salary to work as a cultural dancer at a nightclub in… Read more »

Tunisia:   New Laws Bring New Hope for Trafficking Victims

ISS, 9 August 2019

Trafficking in people - including children, women and foreigners as domestic servants and for street begging, criminal activities and sexual exploitation - is not new in Tunisia.… Read more »

Nigeria:   Nigerian Children Are Not for Sale - Dolapo Osinbajo

Daily Trust, 2 August 2019

The wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, has warned human traffickers in the country to desist from the illicit trade of trafficking Nigerian children saying that our… Read more »

Africa:   UK Found Sending Home Dozens of Slavery Victims Despite Re-Trafficking Fears

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 August 2019

Anti-slavery charities say the numbers could be just the tip of the iceberg Read more »

Malawi:   Steady Progress to Fighting Trafficking in Persons

Malawi News Agency, 31 July 2019

Government has said the country has made steady progress in the fight against modern day slavery and trafficking persons in order to combat it. Read more »