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Sylvie Kouamé*, 17, told IRIN she had sex for money with a man she met on line in her home country Côte d’Ivoire. She needed a few dollars for school...

Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with...

Children should not be seen as victims of sexual exploitation, but rather the front-line fighters against it, said non-profit Save the Children...

Petrol tankers parked nose-to-tail line the five-kilometre stretch of road from the southern Nigerian town of Eleme to its refinery, waiting to fuel...

The border between South Africa and Zimbabwe is more than an international boundary; it also determines the method of payment for sex workers,...

Nigeria’s porous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited by traffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work as...

By early evening the corridors of the Soldier Bar brothel in a busy commercial area of Accra were already filled with long queues of young girls and...