Nearly 50 victims of human trafficking have been rescued as they were being taken to Libya for an onward journey to Europe, Nigeria’s anti-human trafficking agency says.
The group – which included 37 women and 11 men – was intercepted in neighbouring Niger with the help of the authorities there, it added.
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The group had crossed the border into Niger through northern Nigeria. The agency’s commander in Nigeria’s Kano state, Baballe Abdullahi, told the BBC two Ghanaians were among those rescued but the rest were Nigerians.