Growth in Burkina Faso Gold Mining Fuels Human Trafficking

Published May 01 2021 at 11:20 AM GMT

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For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.
The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a.