by Momodou J Darboe, News Editor
JOLLOF NEWS - Friday, 31 October 2014
Despite efforts in combating street begging in Senegal, child beggars
are increasingly visible on the streets of Dakar and other cities and
towns of the West African state.
Hundreds of children at residential Quranic schools in Senegal are subjected to slavery-like conditions and severely abused.
Children,
as young as five years in rags and with empty tomato paste tins in
hand, are familiar sights in many busy places of Dakar, the Senegalese
capital and other cities.
Child begging is seemingly becoming an
insurmountable problem in Senegal as children come from across the
border from Guinea Bissau, neighbouring Gambia and Mali to Senegal as
the country is a source, transit, and destination country for children
trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial
exploitation.
Internally, Quranic teachers traffic boys, commonly
referred to as Talibe, by promising to teach them the Quran but
subjecting them instead to force begging and physical abuse.
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