Sierra Leone's Sex Workers' Lives
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•Kidnapped and trafficked twice - a sex worker's life in Sierra Leone
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BBC Africa Eye spent four years following the lives of a group of sex workers in Makeni .
Thousands of women are estimated to have turned to sex work across Sierra Leone .
Many are young women orphaned by the civil war, which displaced almost half the country's population.
Charity groups say the number of young girls working in the sex trade has increased.
Thousands of Sierra Leoneans , including children, are trafficked every year .
They are either abducted or tricked into travelling out of the country with the promise of a better job.
Instead, they are sold to foreigners in countries around the continent and end up in forced labour or sexual exploitation.
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