Regional Profiles
West Africa
West Africa faces persistent child trafficking, forced labour, forced begging, and sexual exploitation, with victims moved within the subregion and along migration corridors. Regional responses increasingly connect trafficking prevention to labour mobility and border governance.
ECOWAS Strategy
East Africa and the Horn
Conflict, displacement, and unsafe migration routes continue to expose children, women, and migrant workers to trafficking for domestic work, sexual exploitation, forced labour, and forced criminality. Coordination focuses on intelligence sharing and cross-border action.
AU-HoAI Plan
Southern Africa
Southern Africa continues to face labour exploitation in mining, agriculture, domestic work, transport corridors, and informal economies, with South Africa acting as a major destination. Regional responses frame trafficking as a public security and cross-border governance issue.
SADC Security