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AFRICANEWS

The administration in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland is worried about increase in human trafficking in the region. Officials said children are mostly trafficking from south-central Somalia, because of the lack of effective government.
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Fadumo Sudi, the Minister for Family and Social Affairs said: “Before, no one believed that human/child trafficking existed in Somaliland but such kinds of crimes occur here.”

She was speaking at the reunification of a young girl with her family. She was trafficked from Qardho, northeast region in Putland to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in February.

“One day, my sister went to school as usual, but she disappeared. We searched for her everywhere but we didn’t find her,” her brother Najib Jama Abdi said in an IRIN report.

“By Allah’s mercy she was saved. We are happy to have her back,” Abdi added.