BBC Africa Eye: The horrors that sex workers in Sierra Leone experience

BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.

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She has been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, trafficked to another country, rescued, trafficked and rescued again.

Amidst all of this, she became hooked on a dangerous street drug, kush, that is wreaking havoc in the West African nation.

BBC Africa Eye spent four years following the lives of a group of sex workers in Makeni, about 200km (124 miles) from the capital Freetown.

The city lies in an area rich in diamonds, which fuelled Sierra Leone’s civil war - a conflict that has had devastating consequences still being felt to this day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw8xgeyq3o

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