Nigerian women in Mali slave camps’
Officials in Nigeria say that criminal networks are forcing thousands of girls and women there into prostitution in another West African country, Mali. And Nigeria accuses the government in Mali of failing to act against the traffickers. The BBC’s Martin Vogl is in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
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