⚠ Urgent Human Rights Crisis — North Africa
This is a Somali-led initiative raising the alarm on the trafficking of Somalis, Eritreans, Nigerians, Ethiopians, and others through Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Morocco. We are investigators, advocates, and survivors. We will not be silenced.
Most trafficking victims across North Africa originate from Sub-Saharan countries. Traffickers specifically target those who have fled poverty, conflict, and persecution. [UNSMIL; US Dept of State TIP Reports, 2023–2025]
Trafficking networks are specifically organized by a combination of Somali, Djiboutian, Eritrean, Libyan, Sudanese, and North African traffickers who exploit shared languages to extort ransom from families. [US Dept of State TIP Report — Somalia, 2025] Somalis are specifically targeted because traffickers know that diaspora remittances — totalling $1.7 billion in 2023 alone — make families perceived as able to pay. [The New Humanitarian, 2025]
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Understanding the Crisis
This website was built by the Somali community to ring the alarm on a crisis that has devastated our people for decades. But the crisis does not belong to Somalis alone — Eritreans, Nigerians, Ethiopians, Ghanaians and dozens of other nationalities suffer the same fate through the same criminal networks.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime recorded a global 25% increase in detected trafficking victims between 2019 and 2022, with forced labour surging 47% in the same period. [UNODC, 2024] Children are specifically targeted — detected child victims increased 31% globally in 2022, with African routes accounting for a major share. [UNODC, 2024]
The Libyan Magafe criminal group is actively deceiving Somali refugees in Kenyan camps — drawing young people with false promises of relocation to Europe, then trafficking them across the Sahara into slavery. [ENACT Africa, Jan. 2025] The trafficking networks operate in at least 17 countries, with elements in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Sudan, and beyond. [US Dept of State TIP Report — Libya, 2025]
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