By Peter Kahare for The Guardian development network - Wednesday 2 November 2011
Somali girls in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. According to reports, Somali women and children are being trafficked into Kenya and sold into prostitution.
Photograph: Sipa Press/ Rex Features
Abstract : Deals with the humanitarian crisis in Horn of Africa and its consequences.
Extract : "The International Organisation for Migration estimates that over 10,000 people are trafficked into Kenya's Coast province each year. It says trafficked children from Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda work as domestic labourers, sex workers and cattle herders across Kenya. "As of 28 September there were more than 452,000 refugees, mostly Somalis, at Dadaab camp. The huge influx of refugees has complicated the movement of people in the region; it has increased the vulnerability of people to trafficking, smuggling and other forms of exploitation," says Jean-Phillipe Chauzy, the head of communications at IOM.
Hussein says Nairobi is the central market from where girls are distributed to different parts of Kenya and to other countries. "From Nairobi many girls are sent to Mombasa, where underage girls are trafficked for sex tourism. They are taken to massage parlours or beauty shops, where contacts from tour operators and hotels come to select the ones they wish to take as sex workers in the tourism industry," says Hussein"
Index terms : Dadaab camp - Refugees - Sex worker - Kenya - Nairobi - Somalia
Source : The Guardian
Found with : Google Alerts "Humanitarian crisis in Somalia".
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