The government of Tanzania has banned some seventy employment agencies for allegedly engaging in human trafficking.

The government of Tanzania has banned some seventy employment agencies for allegedly engaging in human trafficking. The affected agencies are alleged to have trafficked women to the Middle East where they are used as housemaids.
The clampdown followed complaints of mistreatment of Tanzanian women who travel to the Middle East for work. Secretary of the government’s Anti-Trafficking Secretariat, SEPERATUS FELLA, said most of these girls and boys are subjected to commercial sex or work as domestic servants and barmaids, with some sent on forced labour in factories, farms and mines under very poor conditions.