Trafficking Abroad and in Neighbouring Countries
Common Types of Trafficking in Africa
Learn how Africans are exploited at home (domestically) and abroad (transnationally and internationally) in many forms, including domestic servitude, child marriage, forced labor in mines, forced street begging, and trafficking into agricultural work, like cattle herding.
Examples of trafficking that occur internationally, transnationally and internally:
- Domestic Servitude
- Construction
- Organ removal/trafficking
- Street vending/porters
- Hair braiding
- Camel jockey [Mauritania, Egypt]
- Forced Labor
- Debt bondage
- Sex trafficking
- Child soldier
Examples of trafficking that occur internally:
- Domestic servitude
- Agricultural (cattle herding)
- Mining [Examples: gold mining in Ghana, granite mining in Nigeria, Tanzanite mines in Tanzania, diamond mines in South Africa]
- Child marriage [Ethiopia, Mauritania, Egypt]
- Fishing [Ghana]
- Ritual sacrifice [Mozambique, Tanzania]
- Misfar [Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco]
Examples of trafficking that occur transnationally:
- Sex trafficking
- Cattle herding
- Street begging
- Child soldier
- Child porters
- Fishing
Examples of trafficking that occur internationally:
- Hair braiding
- Sex trafficking
- Trafficking for soccer
