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A sex worker stands next to a trailer as she waits for customers in Mtito Andei town along Mombasa road. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]
About 15,000 girls aged between 12 and 18 years, and who live at the Coast, are engaged in prostitution, a UN report has disclosed.
The new report on human trafficking, based on research findings concluded last May, further shows that the figure represents 30 per cent of all girls within the age bracket living in Diani, Kilifi, Malindi and Mombasa.
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