A two day conference organised by AFRUCA – Africans Unite Against Child Abuse has ended in London with a call for urgent action to explore the link between the branding of children as witches, child abandonment and the risks of child trafficking with a view to devising better safeguarding mechanisms for vulnerable children.

The call was made in response to evidence presented at the event highlighting the growing spate of child branding in many African countries and the subsequent abandonment and rejection of such children by their families. Ending up as street children, experts at the event expressed concern that many become easy prey and targets for child traffickers, abusers and exploiters.

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