HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON THE RISE-CFSC

By Precious Sue Msosa
A Malawian human rights organization has disclosed that human trafficking has drastically increased following high demand of prostitutes in European countries.
Radek Malonwski, project officer for Centre for Social Concern disclosed this at the on going southern Africa social forum in Lilongwe Malawi.
He said the recent estimates indicate that four million people are being traficked from Africa to Europe annually on pretext that they would find them jobs by the foreigners, describing the figure as worse than the times of slavery.
“Foreigners entice the local masses that they would find them good jobs and higher learning education but only to be found stranded at eleventh hour and be told to be bar attendants,” he said.
Malonwski added that victims can’t even report to police as there are warned that they would just end up in prison as they entered the country illegally.
He warned the locals in each African country not to fall prey to these foreigners who promise the moon.
Tobias Jere, also from the same organization revealed that fourteen people from Dowa were recently rescued at western Malawi’s Mchinji boarder en route to Zambia by the traffickers.
He said the victims confessed that they were only given one meal per day.
Radik said that the British authorities are currently in the country to train the Malawi police how to identify and track down the traffickers.