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Two remanded for human trafficking

One Lamin Jaiteh and Kunjara Jaiteh, were on Wednesday, remanded at the Remand Wing of the State Central Prison, by Principal Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court, after they had pleaded not guilty to the charges of trafficking and concealment of trafficking, which are punishable under The Gambia’s laws. According to the prosecution, the duo, on 8th June 2008, at Bakau Beach, engaged in trafficking by recruiting Lamin Manjang and 61 others, purposely for exploitation within or...

Govt poised to combat human trafficking - Says Justice SoS

Mrs Marie Saine-Firdaus, the attorney general and secretary of state for Justice, has said that The Gambia government has put in place necessary legal frameworks, based largely on acceptable international standards, to combat human trafficking and its related offences. SoS Saine-Firdaus made these remarks, on Tuesday, at the opening ceremony of a three-day ECOWAS meeting on the implementation of the ECOWAS Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, at the Jerma Beach Hotel, from 10th -...

NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border aids human trafficking

Nigeria’sporous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited bytraffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work asprostitutes, immigration officials told IRIN. “Our 910kilometre boundary with Niger is too much for us to police whichprovides human traffickers an advantage to conduct their trade ofsmuggling young girls to Europe for prostitution,” Oemi Bio Ockiya,head of the Nigerian immigration department in Kano told IRIN. Ockiyasaid girls are transported...

MOZAMBIQUE: Scratching the surface of child trafficking

Exploitation and abuse of human trafficking victims, mainly taken from Mozambique to South Africa, has seen a surge in media headlines but experts warn this is just "the tip of the iceberg." There have been 52 suspected cases of trafficking involving young women and children since the beginning of the year, according to Save the Children-United Kingdom (SC-UK) Mozambique. The latest involved the sexual enslavement of three Mozambican children, aged between 14 and 16, at a brothel in South...

BAYI-IDIA ends leadership training programme

A three-day leadership training programme organised by  Better Africa Youth Initiative (BAYI) ended recently. The workshop which was organised by BAYI in collaboration with Institute of Democratic International Affairs (IDIA) was held in Banjul Senior Secondary School. BAYI is a charitable organisation dedicated to the empowerment and development of youths in The Gambia and Africa as a whole.  It aims to encourage  young African to utilise their God-given talents and energy as well as...

Law Courts Toughen Stance

As Briton Gets Convicted for People Trafficking The law courts in The Gambia are understandably not taking the issue of illegal migration lightly as the unsavory ramifications of the vice increasingly come to bear. A magistrates’ court in the Kanifing municipality last Friday convicted a British national, Michael Russel, for his involvement in people trafficking. Michael Russel was sometime last year arrested by Gambian security agents in the Gambian territorial waters in an apparent...