According to reports from PM news, the babies were thought to have arrived in Niger from Nigeria via Benin.
“The trafficking network is used primarily by couples who are unable to have children,” a source close to the case told AFP. A number of civil servants and health workers were also detained. Some suspects were referred to the public prosecutor on Wednesday, the police source said. “Baby factories” — private clinics where young girls sell their newborns to couples who are unable to conceive — are regularly dismantled in Nigeria. Cases in which mothers give up babies born from rape have been reported at such clinics, but young women facing unwanted pregnancies are more common, according to the Nigerian authorities. The newborns are sold for several thousand euros — with boys fetching more than girls. The mothers receive around 150 euros ($200). Human trafficking is the third most common crime in Nigeria, behind fraud and drug trafficking, according to the United Nations.
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