Smaller numbers of girls from Mali, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau migrate to Guinea, where they were subjected to involuntary domestic servitude and likely also commercial sexual exploitation.
Some Guinean boys and girls were subjected to forced labor in gold mining operations in Senegal, Mali, and possibly other African countries.
Guinean women and girls were subjected to involuntary domestic servitude and forced prostitution in Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Senegal, Greece, and Spain.
Networks also trafficked women from Nigeria, India, and Greece through Guinea to the Maghreb and onward to Europe, notably Italy, Ukraine, Switzerland, and France for forced prostitution and involuntary domestic servitude.
[3] n 2010, the Government of Guinea did not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it made significant efforts to do so, despite limited resources.
The junta, however, made minimal progress toward combating human trafficking in Guinea since coming to power in a coup d'etat in December 2008.
While Guinea had an adequate anti-trafficking legal framework, which it had strengthened by enacting the Child Code of 2008, the junta did not report any trafficking prosecutions or convictions for the second year in a row, and protection and prevention efforts remained weak.
Article 337 of the 1998 Penal Code prohibits individuals from entering into agreements that deprive third parties of their liberty, prescribing penalties of five to 10 years' imprisonment and confiscation of any resulting profits.
The government provided only limited specialized training to its officials on the recognition, investigation, and prosecution of human trafficking, due to budget constraints.