Effects of Covid on Human Trafficking in Africa with a special focus on sex trafficking

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed many victims in the last three years. Hundreds of thousands of people died and millions lost their livelihoods which pushed as many as 124 million more people into extreme poverty globally.[1] While the major effort of most governments was aimed at breaking chains of infection to protect the population from…

Calls to criminalise sex work in Nigeria as a response to human trafficking misreads the problem

Introduction Recently, several anti-trafficking non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria have called on the government to criminalise sex work. In the forefront of this advocacy are organisations like Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, Associazione Iroko Onlus and The Gloria Steinem Equality Fund to End Sex Trafficking, who urged lawmakers to legislate laws to end the…

The weakest link

Note: This piece was first published in Issue 64 of Africa in Fact of Good Governance Africa. Malawi remains one of the poorest countries in the world despite making significant economic and structural reforms to sustain economic growth. The economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, which employs more than 80% of the population, and is…