ABSTRACT

Over the last few decades, human trafficking has become a growing problem worldwide, and Africa, in particular, faces mounting challenges to reducing the number of trafficked victims. Most human trafficking flows are intraregional, meaning that the origin and the destination of the trafficked victim is within the same region, and more often from poor countries to more affluent ones (UNODC, 2014). Trans-regional trafficking flows are mainly detected in the rich countries of the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. These flows often involve victims mainly from East and South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (UNODC, 2014). The trafficking of persons violates the human rights (United Nations, 2000) and health of victims, threatens national security, and increases the size of the underground economy and organized crime (Belser, 2005; Dovydaitis, 2010; UNODC, 2006, 2014).