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US $4.3 million to fight child trafficking

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    The US Labour Department will provide US $4.3 million to fund rehabilitation and prevention activities to help fight child trafficking in West and Central Africa, the International Labour Organisation stated. The money will help some 27,000 children who have been, or risk being, victims.

    The case of the ‘Etinero’, a ship that docked at Cotonou, Benin, on 17 April carrying 43 children and adolescents from several West African countries, has heightened awareness of the child trafficking issue. Some 200,000 children are trafficked every year in West and Central Africa, according to UNICEF.

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