Ghana has been cautioned by the United States to increase its efforts to end modern day slavery or risk losing millions of dollars in aid.
The West African country has been listed the second year in a row as a Tier 2 Watch List country in the 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report released on Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Ghana’s position means its government is not fully meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons and failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in the past year, the US Department of State explained in a statement.
