In Africa, many young girls from very poor and poverty-stricken villages have been subject to human trafficking by African criminal and terrorist enterprise
24.9M people are trapped in human trafficking and exploitation around the world.
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Modern slavery is the highest in Africa with 7.6 victims for every 1,000 people. An estimated 9.24 million individuals are enslaved in all of Africa, making up 23% of the total global enslaved population.
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Most of the detected trafficking victims in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to be children, at about 60 per cent, with both boys and girls detected in significant proportions
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The majority of detected victims in Sub-Saharan Africa are trafficked for the purpose of forced labour (77%), followed by sexual exploitation (20%).
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Africa accounts for 8% of the world’s sexually exploited children.
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US $150 billion of profit is obtained through the use of forced labour by traffickers each year.
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​Human trafficking is the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world.
