Prostitution in Africa
The legal status of Prostitution in Africa varies widely. It is frequently common in practice, partially driven by the widespread poverty in many sub-Saharan African countries,[1] and is one of the drivers for the prevalence of AIDS in Africa.[2] (36.9% in sub-Saharan Africa)[3] Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire permit the operations of brothels. In other countries, prostitution may be legal, but brothels are not allowed to operate. In some countries where prostitution is illegal, the law is rarely enforced.
Transactional sexual relationships are particularly common in sub-Saharan Africa, where they often involve relationships between older men and younger women or girls. In many cases, the woman in a transactional sexual relationship may remain faithful to her boyfriend, while he may have multiple sexual partners. In both of these cases, transactional sex presents an increased risk of HIV infection. As a result, transactional sex is a factor involved in the spread of AIDS in Africa.
This page uses the UN system of subregions.
Table
Country/Territory | Prostitution | Legal Age for solicitation | Brothels | Pimping | Notes |
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Angola | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Prostitution remains a major problem. Female and Child prostitutes are often trafficked into China and vice versa. |
Botswana | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Burkina Faso | Legal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Burundi | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Cameroon | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Child prostitution remains a major problem, however the government is working hard combating it. |
Cape Verde | Uncertain | Uncertain | Uncertain | Uncertain | |
Central African Republic | Illegal | Illegal | Illegal | Illegal | |
Ceuta | Uncertain, but prostitution itself isn't considered a crime | Uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | Main article: Prostitution in Spain |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Illegal, but tolorated | Not allowed, but tolorated, age is uncertain | Illegal, but tolorated | Illegal, but tolorated | |
Djibouti | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Egypt | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal |
Males are considered a witness and is exempt of punishment for testifying against the prostitute. The penalty for prostitutes is 3–36 months in prison and/or a fine. Any minor involved in prostitution is sent to a sort of corrective centre, where conditions are often as bad if not worse than they are in adult prisons |
Eritrea | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Ethiopia | Legal | Uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | Profiting from prostitution isn't allowed by law. |
Gambia | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Ghana | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Guinea-Bissau | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Ivory Coast | Legal | 18 | Illegal | Illegal | |
Kenya | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Child Prostitution is a major problem, especially along the coast. |
Liberia | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Although Illegal, due to widespead poverty and corruption, prostitution remains a problem |
Libya | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Madagascar | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Malawi | Illegal, rarely enforced | Not allowed, rarely enforced, age uncertain | Illegal, rarely enforced | Illegal, rarely enforced | |
Morocco | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Mozambique | Legal | age uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | |
Mali | Legal | age uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | |
Namibia | Legal | age uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | |
Niger | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Nigeria | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | The Nigerian government is looking into legalizing prostitution |
Rwanda | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Senegal | Legal | 21 | Illegal | Illegal | |
Sierra Leone | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Although illegal, prostitution remains a major problem, especially child prostitution. |
Seychelles | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | The police often look the other way at prostitutes. |
Somalia | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
South Africa | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
South Sudan | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Swaziland | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Tanzania | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Tanzanian law forbids prostitution |
Togo | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | Although illegal, child sex tourism has remained a major problem. |
Tunisia | Illegal, but tolorated | Not allowed, but tolorated, age is uncertain | Illegal, but tolorated | Illegal | |
Uganda | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Western Sahara | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Zambia | Legal | Uncertain | Illegal | Illegal | |
Zimbabwe | Illegal | Not allowed | Illegal | Illegal | |
Country/Territory | Prostitution | Legal Age for solicitation | Brothels | Pimping | Notes |
Northern Africa
Egypt
Prostitution in Egypt is illegal.[4] Police department officially combats prostitution but, like almost all other countries, prostitution exists in Egypt. The prostitutes in Egypt are Egyptian, Russian, and of many other nationalities.[5][6][7][8]
Libya
Prostitution in Libya is illegal.[9] Many of the sex workers are from neighboring countries desperate to flee the povery of their countries.[9]
Morocco
Prostitution has been illegal in Morocco since the 1970s. [10]
Many children are vulnerable as adoption laws in Morocco are very rigid and difficult. Morocco's increasing reputation for attracting foreign pedophiles made it sign various international treaties to deal with the problem.[11][12][13][14] [15][16] Male prostitution exists but is stigmatised.[17] Health services for Moroccan sex workers include OPALS.[14][18][19][20]
Traditionally, women's roles in North African society have been rigidly defined, particularly so with increasing Islamification. Yet the economic and social realities often provide few alternatives to many Moroccan women, and the area has increasingly been seen as permissive to prostitution.[21]
Tunisia
Prostitution in Tunisia is illegal, but, as in many other countries, the laws that ban prostitution are ignored and there are many brothels, tolerated and regulated by the authorities.[22]
Western Africa
Burkina Faso
Prostitution in Burkina Faso is not specifically prohibited by the law, but soliciting and pimping are illegal.[23]
Cape Verde
Sex tourism is a major occurrence in Cape Verde.[24]
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
In Côte d'Ivoire, prostitution itself (exchanging sex for money) is legal, but associated activities, such as soliciting, pandering or running brothels, are illegal.[25] The civil war has left many women in need for wages, so some have resorted to prostitution, as there is high unemployment.[26]
The Gambia
Prostitution in the Gambia is illegal and highly a social taboo[27][28][29][30]
Ghana
Prostitution in Ghana is illegal and has a growing problem of sex tourism.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] [40][41] Prostitution is a criminal act which attract criminal penalty as per the criminal books of the country. A high percentage of sex workers are vulnerable to HIV.[42]
Defining prostitution in the African context can be difficult, compared the situation in Europe, there being a continuum from marriage to prostitution. If prostitution is defined as "women who sell sex on a regular basis to a number of different clients and without any emotional or long-term basis to the relationships", then such women can be identified in urban Ghanaian settigs, but in between lies a spectrum of sexual relationships that may, for instance, involve longer term relationships, children and domestic settings.[43]
Guinea-Bissau
Prostitution in Guinea-Bissau is a major serious problem with many of pimps also being drug dealers.[44] Because of the poor economic situation many women are tempted by such offers of vice and become addicted to cocaine.[45]
Liberia
Prostitution is illegal in Liberia[46] Like its neighbor, Sierra Leone, child prostitution has seen an increase in the aftermath of a civil war.[47]
Mali
Mali has problem with teenage prostitution and sex tourism.[48]
Niger
Prostitution in Niger is illegal.[49]
Nigeria
Nigeria has become a major exporter of women for prostitution.[50][51][9][52][53] Ike Ekweremadu deputy president proposed a bill to legalise prostitution.[54]
Senegal
Prostitution in Senegal is legal and regulated. Prostitutes must be at least 21 years of age, register with the police, carry a valid sanitary card, and test negative for sexually transmitted infections.[55] NGOs working with prostitutes claim that the police abuses prostitutes.[55][56] Senegal is becoming a popular destination for Female sex tourism.[57]
Sierra Leone
Since the end of the ten-year civil war in Sierra Leone, there has been an increase in child prostitution, especially among children who are struggling to survive.[58] This is happening in spite of the fact that prostitution is illegal in the country.[56]
Togo
Prostitution in Togo is illegal and punishable for up to 5 to 10 years.[59] In recent years Togo has become a magnet for western sex tourists who are interested in child prostitution.[60]
Middle Africa
Angola
Prostitution in Angola is illegal and prevalent since the end of the civil war in 2001.[61] Human trafficking from China is major problem which the Angolan government working with Chinese Police.[62]
Cameroon
Prostitution in Cameroon is illegal but attracts sex tourism from the west especially for child prostitution.[63] The Cameroonian government has attempted to stop this trade by agreeing to multilateral agreements such as charters against sex tourism, like signing up with the Universal Federation of Travels Agents Associations (UFTAA).[64]
Central African Republic
Prostitution is illegal but is run by foreign pimps.[65][66]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Prostitution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is illegal but the government do little to enforce the law.[67] Many Congolese prostitutes are from abroad or homeless children who have been accused of witchcraft.[68][69]
Eastern Africa
Burundi
Prostitution in Burundi is illegal.[70]
Djibouti
Prostitution in Djibouti is illegal.[71]
Eritrea
Prostitution in Eritrea is illegal,[72] but, according to the 2009 Human Rights Reports it is a serious problem, and security forces occasionally follow women engaged in prostitution and arrest those who had spent the night with a foreigner.[72]
Ethiopia
Prostitution in Ethiopia is legal, but procuring (operating brothels, benefiting from prostitution, etc.) is illegal according to Article 634 of the Ethiopian Penal Code, as revised May 2005.[73] Many feel it has contributed to the increased incidence of AIDS.[74] Ethiopia has become a magnet for sex tourism.[75]
Kenya
Prostitution in Kenya is illegal.
Madagascar
Prostitution in Madagascar is illegal and people caught paying for sex can face a sentence of up to 10 years.[76][77][78]
Malawi
Prostitution in Malawi is illegal but is widespread and laws prohibiting are rarely enforced.[79] [80][81][82]
Mozambique
Prostitution in Mozambique first became a major issue for the country in the mid-1990s when UN peacekeepers were accused of soliciting child prostitutes.[83][84]
Rwanda
Prostitution is illegal in Rwanda.[85] However, due to the immense poverty in the country, many women have been forced into prostitution to make money.[85]
Seychelles
Prostitution in Seychelles is illegal but remains prevalent. Police generally do not apprehend prostitutes unless their actions involved other crimes.[86]
Somalia
Prostitution in Somalia is illegal.[87] Although forced marriages exist in areas under insurgent control,[88] there is generally little voluntary prostitution and pre-marital sex in the country according to the African Medical Research and Education Foundation (AMREF).[89]
South Sudan
South Sudan has a problem of imported prostitution from nearby African countries.[90][91][92][93][94][95][96]
Tanzania
Prostitution in Tanzania is illegal under Tanzanian law, but it is still widespread.[97]
Uganda
Prostitution in Uganda is illegal in Uganda, but prostitutes operate freely in Kampala city centre.[98][99]
Zambia
Prostitution in Zambia is illegal but Zambia has a huge problem relating to child prostitution. There is a mistaken belief having intercourse with a virgin will cure AIDS.[100]
Zimbabwe
Prostitution in Zimbabwe is illegal but since the increase of famine in the country prostitution has thrived.
Southern Africa
Botswana
Prostitution is illegal in Botswana, but is nevertheless common. Legalization is currently being discussed as a means of lowering HIV infection rates, which are among the highest in the world. Both the head of the National AIDS Council, Festus Mogae, and the main opposition leader are in favor of the initiative, while the Catholic Church is opposed.[101]
Namibia
Prostitution in Namibia is illegal but a common practice.
South Africa
Prostitution in South Africa has been illegal since the 1957 Sexual Offences Act (SOA), and the purchase of sex was added as an offence in a 2007 amendment. However, it remains common.
Swaziland
Prostitution in Swaziland is illegal, and police continue to enforce the law,[102] although they sometimes turn a blind eye to prostitution in clubs.[103]
See also
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