{"id":42561,"date":"2026-08-14T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42561"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:11:22","slug":"malawi-ethiopia-sign-pact-to-curb-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-ethiopia-sign-pact-to-curb-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi, Ethiopia sign pact to curb human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi and Ethiopia have signed a landmark bilateral agreement in Addis Ababa aimed at combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pact follows a sharp increase in illicit networks trafficking Ethiopian nationals through Malawi into the Southern African Development Community region, as well as Malawians being smuggled to the Middle East via Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The signing was attended by Malawi&#8217;s Minister of Homeland Security, Peter Mukhito, and Ethiopia&#8217;s State Minister of Justice, Belayhun Yirga Kifile, alongside officials from the African Union, International Organisation for Migration, Interpol, and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the signing, Mukhito emphasised that law enforcement agencies and international partners are actively tracking trafficking networks and assisting victims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of these cases are reported through the police, and some are reported through immigration, and also through our foreign missions, including the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare,&#8221; Mukhito said. &#8220;The latest published international assessment report noted that Malawi identified and referred almost 248 trafficking victims for care, and that report came out in 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new bilateral framework aims to facilitate joint operations, information sharing, and victim protection mechanisms between the two East and Southern African countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40563,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42561","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Malawi, Ethiopia partner to dismantle cross-border human trafficking networks","published_date":"2026-08-14 15:10:46","news_description":"Malawi, Ethiopia partner to dismantle cross-border human trafficking networks","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42562,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42561\/revisions\/42562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}