Human Trafficking | ENACT Africa

Mining and extractives

Poverty fuels child labour at Nigeria’s illegal oil refineries

Children volunteer or are encouraged by seeing the benefits that peers and adults derive from this dangerous work.

24 / 07 / 2025 by Oluwole Ojewale & Dengiyefa Angalapu

Human trafficking

Trafficking in women in West and North Africa and towards Europe

Criminal networks exploit women through deceptive recruitment, digital control and regional trafficking for sexual exploitation across Africa and Europe.

13 / 06 / 2025

Human trafficking

Rising wave of kidnappings in the Bight of Biafra

Growing success rates have led to the emergence of a hostage-taking enterprise in the ocean region from Nigeria to Gabon.

05 / 06 / 2025 by Raoul Sumo Tayo

Human trafficking

Vague d’enlèvements dans le golfe du Biafra

La réussite croissante des prises d’otages dans la région océanique entre le Nigéria et le Gabon fait de cette activité une véritable manne.

05 / 06 / 2025 by Raoul Sumo Tayo

Human trafficking

Somali refugees in Kenya fall victim to Libyan-based traffickers

Trans-Saharan trafficking syndicates lure youngsters from the Dadaab camps with the promise of a better life in Europe.

15 / 05 / 2025 by Willis Okumu & Valtino Omolo

Human trafficking

Sierra Leonean migrants carry the cost of their own trafficking

Job seekers in search of better lives in the Middle East are finding themselves entangled in exploitation and forced labour.

08 / 05 / 2025 by Ndubuisi Christian Ani

Human trafficking

Les migrants de Sierra Leone paient le prix de leur propre exploitation

Des personnes sans emploi, en quête d’une vie meilleure au Moyen-Orient, se retrouvent piégées dans l’engrenage de l’exploitation et du travail forcé.

08 / 05 / 2025 by Ndubuisi Christian Ani

Human smuggling

Le prix du passage : immersion dans les réseaux clandestins de migration au Ghana

Le témoignage de quatre passeurs révèle les motivations et les méthodes des réseaux clandestins.

07 / 04 / 2025 by Feyi Ogunade

Human smuggling

The price of passage: inside Ghana’s migrant smuggling underworld

The experiences of four human smugglers highlight the motivations and methods of smuggling networks.

07 / 04 / 2025 by Feyi Ogunade

Human trafficking

Les élèves toujours visés par des enlèvements de masse au Nigéria

Face à l’évolution des motifs des kidnappings, le gouvernement cherche des réponses efficaces.

11 / 02 / 2025 by Feyi Ogunade

Human trafficking

Nigeria’s schoolchildren once again the target of mass abductions

Shifting drivers of mass abductions leave the country’s government searching for effective responses.

11 / 02 / 2025 by Feyi Ogunade

Human trafficking

Cultural practices and state weaknesses drive South Sudan-Ethiopia abductions

Women and children are captured during cattle raids on the border and forced into a lifetime of servitude.

10 / 10 / 2024 by Willis Okumu

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