LAGOS, Nigeria—As many as 20,000 women and girls are feared to have been trafficked from Nigeria to Mali, where they are stranded after being forced into prostitution, the head of Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency said Jan. 22.
Julie Okah-Donli, director general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), said a fact-finding team from NAPTIP and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) uncovered the extent of the trafficking during a visit to southern Mali last month.
