​Kawtef à Kédougou: A woman sold by “Friday” at a price of… CFA 

  Le 26 juin, une Nigériane de 23 ans, R. is a Nigerian woman who lives in the north of Nigeria. Raji, was handed over to the National Anti-Trafficking Division (Dnit) after fleeing the village of Sékoto, in the Kédougou region, where she claims to have been sexually exploited. According to Libération, which reports the facts in its edition of Wednesday 2 July, this is the third case of trafficking in persons registered in a few months only. During her hearing, the journal states, the young woman was accused of F. Jonathan, also of Nigerian nationality, for having forced him to prostitute himself in order to repay a debt of two million CFA francs. Interpelled at his domicile, la mise en cause a reconnu les faits. She even confessed to having ” bought ” R. Raji à un certain ” Friday “, membre d’un réseau opérant depuis Cotonou (Benin), pour la somme de 500 000 F CFA. (a) The applicant was a French national who had been employed by a French company for a number of years. The investigation has brought to light the existence of a vast transfrontier network of trafficking in persons, linking Nigeria, Benin and Senegal, with the use of false documents and the involvement of several accomplices in the transport of victims. The accused has been transferred to the parquet of Kédougou. As for the alleged victim, she was entrusted to the La Lumière NGO for psycho-social and administrative care, complète Libération.