Analysis - Educated job seekers fall prey to online scams, driving the trafficking of East Africans to Southeast Asia.
Educated job seekers fall prey to online scams, driving the trafficking of East Africans to Southeast Asia.
These job opportunities abroad are particularly appealing to youth in East Africa, where recent studies show that up to 80% are In September 2022, Kenya's government, together with the International Organization for Migration - Kenya, Awareness Against Human Trafficking and the Laos government, repatriated 24 victims of trafficking from Myanmar. Most were women under 30 years old from Kenya, Burundi and Uganda.In June 2023, INTERPOL issued a global warning on the increased activities of human trafficking networks fuelled by fraud.
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