Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
Burkina Faso’s security sector is undertrained and ill-equipped to disrupt the expansive network of recruiters, traffickers, and pimps For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person….
