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Current Feed ContentGrace Mashaba, "In trafficking there are many people involved"Grace Mashaba, 60, is the founder of the Amazing Grace Children's Home in the town of Malelane, in South Africa's northeastern province of Mpumalanga. Thirty children live in the compound – survivors of abuse, neglect, or trafficking for the purposes of labour. The Malelane region is wedged between the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique, and straddles the highway corridor linking South Africa's economic hub, Johannesburg, to the Mozambican capital, Maputo. "I grew up on a farm, so I used to...Stop child trafficking: one of the main objectives of UNICEF in Guinea BissauAccording to studies carried out in 2003 in Senegal, most of the 120,000 children begging in the street of Dakar (Senegal) were from Guinea Bissau. To date, child trafficking continues across the very porous border between Senegal and Guinea Bissau. Recent data from the Guinea Bissau border police shows that 104 children have been rescued from the traffickers in recent months, while being smuggled across the border. UNICEF Bissau is working closely with the government and other partners,...GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Child trafficking on the decline say local authoritiesChild trafficking from Guinea-Bissau to Senegal is on the decline, partly due to better collaboration among local residents, civil society groups and government, local authorities said. Government officials and aid workers say more and more sectors are on the watch for suspicious movement of children. “Now a whole new set of actors are involved who weren’t in the past – border police, governors, even truck-drivers unions, and we receive information from surveillance committees every two to...CONGO: Tackling child traffickingSixteen-year-oldMayi doesn’t remember exactly when she was taken from the Togolesecapital Lome to Congo’s second city Pointe-Noire by her “guardian”. Whennot selling food on the streets, she says she “sweeps the house, washesclothes or the dishes and takes care of the children”. Lucie,also 16 and from Benin, spends her days selling goods along the aislesof the market in Poto-Poto, a district of the capital, Brazzaville,where many West Africans live. “My parents handed me over toan aunt a...Child trafficker gets two yearsPrincipal Magistrate BY Camara of the Banjul Magistrates Court, yesterday, convicted and sentenced one Sheikh Jobe to two years imprisonment, with hard labour, after he was found guilty of child trafficking. In what could be viewed as his last judgment in a case at the magistrates court, following his suspended appointment as a judge, which finally takes effect today, July 1, the principal magistrate said the prosecution has proven its case beyond reasonable doubt. He said the prosecution has...NIGERIA: Stepping up the fight against child-traffickingIn a welcome centre in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a small finger traces the words of an English text book; a young voice struggles to pronounce the words. Ruth is 13 years old and only in grade 3. But for her, this is a major achievement. At the age of five, Ruth was trafficked from her village in southern Nigeria to Gabon, further south on the Gulf of Guinea. For years of her life, she never attended school. Taken by an uncle who promised to care for and educate her in Gabon, Ruth was instead...Southern Africa: Stop Zimbabwean deportations say refugee organisationsA prominent international refugee organisation is calling for an end to the deportations of undocumented Zimbabweans by neighbouring countries. After a month-long fact-finding mission to the region, Refugees International (RI), a US-based non-governmental refugee advocacy group, published a bulletin, Zimbabwe Exodus, on its observations. "Large numbers of deportees regularly re-cross the borders illegally immediately after deportation, where they are subject to dangerous environmental...CHAD-SUDAN: Legal framework a hindrance in ‘child-trafficking’ caseChadian and UN officials say the absence of a child trafficking law in Chad will hamper efforts to prosecute members of a French association who were arrested in the country while trying to take 103 children to host families in France. The association, L’Arche de Zoé (Zoe’s Ark), says it was trying to rescue Sudanese orphans from “certain death” in the Darfur region, on the border with Chad. Six members of the group – arrested on 25 October – have been charged with abducting minors for the... |
