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Child trafficking in Ethiopia12 Nov 2007
Fighting Africa's child trafficking boom.

Despite calls from UNICEF for eastern and southern African nations to fight the region's boom in child trafficking, Ethiopia is fast becoming the hub of trafficking routes in the horn of Africa. Thousands of children being sent out of the country each year to countries like Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It is a lucrative business which can earn traffickers as much as eight hundred dollars per child. Angela Robson went to Mercato market bus station in Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa where she met some of the children who had been brought there.
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