60 percent of human trafficking business made in Africa

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Africa, humans |

United Nations experts have stated that more than 60 percent of the human trafficking business was made in Africa, mostly south of the Sahara desert.

Source: Zoe Eisenstein, ” Africa wants global fight against human trafficking,” Reuters Africa, July 15, 2007.

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