According to the document, drawn up by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), children continue to represent the majority of victims detected and if you add women, the total number of victims of these two population groups trafficked in sub-Saharan Africa is of 62%.
“Between 2019 and 2020, the rate of child victims per 1,000,000 inhabitants increased by 43%”, however, details the report, “fewer victims are detected per 100,000 inhabitants than in other parts of the world”.
"While sexual exploitation has historically been a form of exploitation in other regions with a majority of female victims, forced labor remains the most common form of trafficking detected in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in East African countries where trafficking for forced labor represented 80% of the form of exploitation for the total number of victims registered in 2020”, points out the report.
Compared to other cross-border trafficking regions, victims from sub-Saharan Africa are detected in an increasing number of countries, both within and outside the region of origin.
According to the report, 85% of victims detected in 2020 were trafficked domestically and in situations where foreign victims were detected, the majority were trafficked within the region from other Sub-Saharan African countries, particularly from countries in East and Southern Africa.
