Court exposes Botswana’s child slave market

In the shadows of Botswana’s booming illegal mining underworld, a growing child trafficking network has taken root, smuggling Zimbabwean minors into Botswana, where young boys are forced into hard labour and young girls suffer sexual abuse in silence.

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