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Child abduction cannot go unnoticed, unabated!

Monday, June 20, 2022 | 420 Views |

For the past few years, there has been an outcry on social media about people going missing. While some are found dead, others simply disappear without a trace!

This affects both children and adults, but of late there have been more cases of child abductions being reported. While challenges like this are not peculiar to Botswana, we as a nation seem not to be doing enough.

By now, we could have ample information on whether the abductions are done by human traffickers or other factors such as being taken for ritual murders.

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Child abduction cannot go unnoticed, unabated!

For the past few years, there has been an outcry on social media about people going missing. While some are found dead, others simply disappear without a trace!