Prostitution in Mozambique is legal and widely practiced, and the country also contains illegal brothels.
The majority of the population remains below the poverty line, a situation which provides fertile soil for the development of prostitution.
[3] The arrival of peacekeepers operating under the auspices of the UN resulted in an increase in the prostitution industry.
The main destination was South Africa, where they were put into sexual slavery and compelled to work in prostitution.
Women and girls from Zimbabwe and Malawi who voluntarily migrate to Mozambique are manipulated by traffickers into forced prostitution.