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‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are forced to beg on Senegal’s streets

TECHNOLOGYTHE GUARDIAN AFRICAMon, 03 Aug 2026
‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are forced to beg on Senegal’s streets

An old west African practice of sending children away to study is being used as a cover for trafficking, say human rights groupsIn a bare, gloomy room on the beachfront at Saint-Louis, in the north-west of Senegal, dozen...

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