Editing Sexual slavery (section)

===Africa===
{{see also|Slavery in modern Africa}}
In Africa, the European colonial powers [[Abolitionism|abolished slavery]] in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, in areas outside their jurisdiction, such as the [[Mahdi]]st empire in [[History of Sudan|Sudan]], the practice continued to thrive. Institutional slavery has been banned worldwide, but there are numerous reports of women sex slaves in areas without effective government control, such as Sudan,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/documents/afr54/076/2004/en |title=Sudan |date=18 July 2004 |access-date=2007-11-08  }}</ref> [[Liberia]],<ref>
{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6264200.stm |title=Africa {{pipe}} Liberia's Taylor appears in court |work=BBC News |date=3 July 2007 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307154811/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6264200.stm |archive-date=7 March 2014 |url-status=live}}
</ref> [[Sierra Leone]],<ref>
{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/press/2003/01/sl0116.htm |title=Human Rights Watch {{pipe}} Defending Human Rights Worldwide |publisher=Human Rights Watch |date=26 July 2010 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630011006/http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/01/sl0116.htm |archive-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=live}}
</ref> northern [[Uganda]],<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/27/uganda13863.htm |title=Uganda: No Amnesty for Atrocities |publisher=Human Rights Watch |date=28 July 2006 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103165556/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/27/uganda13863.htm |archive-date=3 November 2008 |url-status=live}}
</ref> [[Democratic Republic of Congo|Congo]],<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/04/news/nation/17_58_563_3_07.txt |title=Girls at U.N. meeting urge action against sex slavery, trafficking, child labor, AIDS |publisher=Nctimes.com |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629144205/http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/04/news/nation/17_58_563_3_07.txt |archive-date=29 June 2012 |url-status=live}}
</ref> [[Niger]]<ref>
Andersson, Hilary. (11 February 2005) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4250709.stm Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Born to be a slave in Niger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008231646/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4250709.stm |date=8 October 2007 }}. BBC News. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
</ref> and [[Mauritania]].<ref>
{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6938032.stm |title=Africa {{pipe}} Mauritanian MPs pass slavery law |work=BBC News |date=9 August 2007 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106014658/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6938032.stm |archive-date=6 January 2010 |url-status=live}}
</ref> In [[Ghana]], [[Togo]] and [[Benin]], a form of [[religious prostitution]] known as ''trokosi'' ("[[ritual servitude]]") forcibly keeps thousands of girls and women in traditional shrines as "wives of the gods", where priests perform the sexual function in place of the gods.<ref>
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1158115.stm Ghana's trapped slaves] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319135201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1158115.stm |date=19 March 2008 }}, By Humphrey Hawksley in eastern Ghana, 8 February 2001. BBC News
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In April 2014, [[Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping|Boko Haram kidnapped]] 276 female students from [[Chibok]], Borno, a state of Nigeria. More than 50 of them soon escaped, but the remainder have not been released. Instead, [[Abubakar Shekau]], who had a reward of $7 million offered by the [[United States Department of State]] for information leading to his capture, announced his intention of selling them into [[slavery]].