‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are forced to beg on Senegal’s streets

An old west African practice of sending children away to study is being used as a cover for trafficking, say human rights groups In a bare, gloomy room on the beachfront at Saint-Louis, in the north-west of Senegal, dozens of young boys sit on a concrete floor chanting verses…

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