Human trade is alive and thriving across East Africa

Nepalese women arrested in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa as police investigate international human trafficking. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Rose (not her name), 24, travelled from Rwanda to Kuwait in 2015 for a job she had been promised by someone she met online.

Upon reaching Kuwait, her host received her warmly, offering her accommodation and food but a few days later, her host took away her travel documents. Then, together with other people, her host performed a medical procedure to remove parts of her reproductive organs. For two years she was stuck in Kuwait doing any job she could find.