ACERWC
African Committee of Experts on
the Rights & Welfare of the Child
in Kenya every year.208 Report findings show that Somalia as a unique case because Somalia’s
Federal Government has limited capacity to deal with trafficking in the country.209 In Somalia
children are trafficked to Ethiopia and Djibouti where they are subjected to sexual exploitation
and forced labour.210 In addition, ‘(former) pirate groups engage in trafficking of Somali girls and
women as alternative source of income since piracy has been in decline since 2014.’211
In Burundi, children are reported to be trafficked for purpose of sexual exploitation, begging,
domestic servitude and forced labour.212 Burundian children are trafficked into neighbouring
states such as Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, DRC and Southern Africa Countries.213 In
Congo, children are mainly trafficked internally from rural areas to urban areas and from other
states such as DRC and Benin and they are exploited in the informal sector.214 In 2012, local
authorities in Congo reported that 50 children (38 girls and 12 boys) from Benin were detected as
victims of child trafficking.215 In addition, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated that
indigenous communities are particularly susceptible to human trafficking and the cross-border
trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation and forced labour as well as internal ‘fostering’ is still
problematic.216 In Guinea- Bissau the Special Rapporteur on extreme forms of poverty and human
rights stated that child trafficking victims were being forced to beg in the streets during the day
for their masters at religious schools and then study at night.217 Other children from GuineaBissau where also reported to be working in cotton fields in Senegal.218
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As above p 157.
GIZ et al, irregular Migration from and in the East and Horn of Africa (2016) p 42.
As above.
As above.
UNODC (n 201 above) p 6.
As above.
UNODC (n 201 above) p 9.
As above.
Committee on the Right of the Child - Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth
periodic report of the Congo, 25 February 2014.
Sepulveda Carmona, Magdalena, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights,
Mission to Guinea-Bissau (April 1, 2015). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2676820 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2676820 para 48.
UNODC (n 201 above p 14.
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