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Dangers of Seeking Milk and Honey Abroad
Monday, 30 August 2010 16:35
Accra — Ghanaians travelling abroad through agents have been advised to be very tactful else they may end up losing their kidneys to human traffickers.
The Head of the Human Traffic Unit of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Patience Quaye, who gave the warning at a human trafficking forum at Maamobi, Accra last week, explained that apart from being members of human trafficking gangs, some of the culprits are only after the kidneys of their victims.
According to her, upon arrival at the promised destinations, the culprits under the guise of conducting medical examinations on their victims before putting them into jobs remove their kidneys through crude operations. The operation is normally done without the knowledge of the victims under anesthesia and victims are only informed of the operation by the 'Thank you for donating your kidney' note left for them after the operation by the traffickers. The fortunate ones are left with money whilst the others are left to their fate.
Doctor faces charges in UK for trafficking Tanzanian woman
Wednesday, 06 October 2010 16:33
Saturday, 11 September 2010 21:22
Sunday Citizen (Tanzania)
By Sunday Citizen Reporter and Agencies
A 68-year-old doctor is to be charged in a UK court tomorrow with ‘trafficking’ a Tanzanian woman and allegedly holding her in solitude.
Dr Saeeda Khan will become the first person in the UK to be charged with modern-day slavery, after allegedly smuggling to UK the woman and forcing her to work.
Media reports in the UK revealed yesterday that Dr Khan is to face charges of bringing the 46-year-old lady (name withheld) into her £500,000 (Sh1.2 billion) London home.
Dr Khan, who is of Asian origin, is scheduled to appear at London's City of Westminster Magistrate Court charged with trafficking people for exploitation. She had already been bailed to appear at court tomorrow.
West African woman gets 27 years in prison for running human trafficking ring in N.J.
Monday, 20 September 2010 16:32
Joe Ryan/The Star-Ledger
ESSEX COUNTY — She smuggled girls from the villages of West Africa to the streets of East Orange, then controlled them like chattel. She made them work 14-hour days without pay at hair braiding salons. And she enforced rules with fists and threats of voodoo curses.
But Akouavi Kpade Afolabi’s power was gone today as she stood shackled with her eyes downcast before a federal judge in Newark to be sentenced for running a human-trafficking ring that preyed on African girls seeking opportunity in America.
Senegal Court Forbids Forcing Children to Beg
Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:30
New York Times
DAKAR, Senegal — The judge spoke quietly, and decades of custom were quickly rolled back: the Muslim holy men were to be punished for forcing children to beg.
The sentence handed down in a courtroom here last week was gentle, only six months’ probation and a fine for the seven marabouts, or holy men. Yet the result could be a social revolution, in the eyes of some commentators. By government decree, and under international pressure, Senegal has forbidden the marabouts to enlist children to beg on their behalf.
Child trafficking in Upper West worrying
Saturday, 21 August 2010 16:29
Naa Seidu Braimah, a Member of the Council of State, has expressed concern about the alarming rate of child trafficking in the Upper West Region.
Naa Braimah, who expressed the sentiment at the second ordinary meeting of the Jirapa District Assembly on Wednesday at Jirapa, noted that the Region was becoming notorious in child trafficking.
Rights Group Decries Trafficking of Nigerian Women in Ivory Coast
Friday, 27 August 2010 16:22
Anne Look | Dakar
International watchdog group, Human Rights Watch, is urging Nigerian and Ivorian authorities to crack down on traffickers who lure Nigerian women to Ivory Coast and then force them into prostitution.
Human Rights Watch interviewed Nigerian women and girls in three Ivorian towns this July who had been brought there under false pretense and then forced to become prostitutes.
