ABUJA, Nigeria, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Nigerian officials say they have found thousands of young women working in brothels in Mali, lured there by the promise of European jobs.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons said many of the brothels are operated by Nigerian women, the BBC reported Wednesday. The agency said officials who made an exploratory trip to Mali last week found hundreds of operations, some of them with as many as 200 prostitutes.
"We are talking of thousands and thousands of girls," Simon Egede, the agency's executive secretary, told reporters in Abuja.
Egede said officials believe there are 20,000 to 40,000 young Nigerian women in Mali. He provided no information about how those estimates were made.
While Nigerian officials said they are working with their counterparts in Mali to halt the traffic and bring the women home, officials in Mali have made no comment.
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