Countries in the Gulf of Guinea are experiencing a surge in human trafficking particularly of women and young girls.

This revelation was part of the findings of a project first initiated in 2019 by Sandra Perrot, the migration gender and human rights chief at Expertise France – a public agency for the design and implementation of international technical cooperation projects.

At a retreat by migration experts on Tuesday on the Banks of the Ebried lagoon, the different dynamics of this trend were equally discussed.

Human trafficking is the third major organized crime in the world after arms and drugs,

Oge Obierika reports.