Somali men selling underage girls as sexslaves smh

[Alshabaibe]

Its sad that the HIV+ girl got taken by a missionary. W e should be a bit more tolerant with AIDS patients

[ahmed yey]

she is just atraitor .This story is not true .i personaly dont believe it.

[Fey]

she is just atraitor .This story is not true .i personaly dont believe it.

Dear boy, unfortunately we don’t care what you believe.

[mahdi01]

I am surprised Jeff Koinange a Kikuyu himself is making the secret underground prostitution among the poor and disadvantaged Somali women of eastleigh as a big crises, while in the Kikuyu community of Nairobi it is their normal culture husbands to encourage their wives as sex workers to earn living, in Nairobi the only Somali males that are known widely to use prostitution are the unmarried truck drivers of east Africa and almost 99% of their female companions were non Somali mostly Kikuyu women.

It is unfair how Jeff and fatuma two professional journalists ignore and don’t give credit how Somali hotel owners in Nairobi reject prostitution in their community at a level that married couples can’t get a hotel in Eastleigh unless they proof that they are married and the woman is not a girlfriend or prostitute he picked from the street. Prostitution is taboo in the Somali culture.

On the otherside The parents of these girls should known that while the living standards of Dadaab refugee camps are not great they are much better than the living standards of many neighborhoods in Nairobi where crime is rampant and the locals can’t get food and shelter to maintain basic needs and many people that living in Nairobi go empty stomachs to beds every night than those in refugee camps where free food is provided by the UN, so it was a big mistake those parents to believe their uneducated poor girls will earn money to send back and find comfort life in Nairobi without nothing to exchange.

Well, one have to get famous by reporting controversial stories, so I am waiting Fatuma’s next story will she talk about female genital mutilation among the Somali community?

[zingii]

smh.

[grandpakhalif]

How much does a clean Sex slave cost?

Very good question...

[ManD333q]

Granny this not a laughing matter

[hipsterrunoff]

Let's be real, prostitution is the oldest job in history. It won't go away. Good for Faduma for making a difference though.

[OliveOil]

Its sad that the HIV+ girl got taken by a missionary. W e should be a bit more tolerant with AIDS patients

And she will prolly convert to Christianity!

[FarhanYare]

this very sad walahi why do they have to force those young somali girls into prostituation when they can already find thousands of kenyan prostitutes out there?

[ManD333q]

Let's be real, prostitution is the oldest job in history. It won't go away. Good for Faduma for making a difference though.

well prostitution may not go away but grown up women can do whatever they want with their body, but children forced to such should not be tolerated.

[Fey]

Let's be real, prostitution is the oldest job in history. It won't go away. Good for Faduma for making a difference though.

Lets’ be real, you probably didn’t watch the video. Prostitution is =/= to minors being enslaved and forced to have sex. In fact Fatuma doesn’t care about what grow women do to make money (she states this). So your ‘blah blah prostitution is eternal blah blah’ comment is coming out of nowhere. Prostitution wasn’t even the issue here (sex work isn't a breach of human rights).

[AmalJaber]

I am surprised Jeff Koinange a Kikuyu himself is making the secret underground prostitution among the poor and disadvantaged Somali women of eastleigh as a big crises, while in the Kikuyu community of Nairobi it is their normal culture husbands to encourage their wives as sex workers to earn living, in Nairobi the only Somali males that are known widely to use prostitution are the unmarried truck drivers of east Africa and almost 99% of their female companions were non Somali mostly Kikuyu women.

It is unfair how Jeff and fatuma two professional journalists ignore and don’t give credit how Somali hotel owners in Nairobi reject prostitution in their community at a level that married couples can’t get a hotel in Eastleigh unless they proof that they are married and the woman is not a girlfriend or prostitute he picked from the street. Prostitution is taboo in the Somali culture.

Well, one have to get famous by reporting controversial stories, so I am waiting Fatuma’s next story will she talk about female genital mutilation among the Somali community?

Why do you want to tribalise such a thing? Jef is a former CNN senior reporter for africa. Do you really want t bring him down to a Kikuyu-somali debate? Furthermore, if you watched the whole story (30 minutes) you'll see that it is not about Somalis, but about Fatuma. In fact, the thing that won her the award was her reporting on al-shabaab.

Fatuma Noor from Kenyahas been awarded the top prize at this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2011 Awards Ceremony.

Fatuma Noor, who works for The Star Kenya, won for her investigative three-part series on the ‘Al-Shabaab’, which was chosen from among 1407 entries from 42 nations across the African continent.

The series tells the story of the young men who give up their freedom abroad to return and fight for the ‘Al-Shabaab’ in one of the world’s most dangerous places on earth –Somalia.