Horror of East African young women making drones for Russia war

A view of drones during a military exercise in an undisclosed location.

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Young women from Eastern Africa and farther across the continent, are ending up in detention-like camps abroad doing jobs that are health-threatening, after being duped by recruitment agencies in cahoots with slave masters.

Rights and international crimes watchdogs have in the past week raised the alarm over the mistreatment of poor workers in foreign countries, amid lack of action by their governments to protect them from fraudulent agents or rescue them from bad employers.