Human trafficking and exploitation: the US State Department’s alarming report on Senegal

A US State Department report issued under Secretary of State Marco Rubio describes forced labor, sexual exploitation, and fraudulent recruitment of vulnerable people in Senegal. It says traffickers exploit the confiage practice to recruit children, while some high school teachers allegedly sexually abuse girls, sometimes in exchange for money, material goods, or good grades. The report also cites child sex tourism in Dakar and Saint-Louis, and to a lesser extent in Cap Skirring and the Petite Côte. Children are also reportedly exploited in domestic servitude, gold mining, fishing, street vending, and agriculture.