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TO RUEHAB/AMEMBASSY ABIDJAN PRIORITY 2818
RUEHUJA/AMEMBASSY ABUJA PRIORITY 0068
RUEHAR/AMEMBASSY ACCRA PRIORITY 5108
RUEHBP/AMEMBASSY BAMAKO PRIORITY 1267
RUEHGI/AMEMBASSY BANGUI PRIORITY 1466
RUEHBZ/AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE PRIORITY 1668
RUEHJB/AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA PRIORITY 3065
RUEHDK/AMEMBASSY DAKAR PRIORITY 3793
RUEHDJ/AMEMBASSY DJIBOUTI PRIORITY 1133
RUEHLC/AMEMBASSY LIBREVILLE PRIORITY 5755
RUEHLU/AMEMBASSY LUANDA PRIORITY 1051
RUEHMA/AMEMBASSY MALABO PRIORITY 0714
RUEHMB/AMEMBASSY MBABANE PRIORITY 3476
RUEHPL/AMEMBASSY PORT LOUIS PRIORITY 3266
RUEHYD/AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PRIORITY 1735

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 STATE 112432 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AO BY CM CT CG CF IV
DJ, EK, GB, GH, GV, PU, SG, ML, NI 
SUBJECT: AF: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 
 
REF: NONE 
 
¶1. (U) This is an action cable; action request in paras 5 and 
¶6. 
 
2.(SBU) The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, as amended in 
2003, requires the Secretary of State to submit a "Special 
Watch List" of countries on the TIP Report that either 1) had 
moved up a tier on the TIP Report over the last year or 2) 
were ranked on Tier 2 but a)had not shown evidence of 
increasing efforts to address severe forms of TIP from the 
previous year, b) were placed on Tier 2 because of 
commitments to carry out additional future actions over the 
coming year, or c) had a significant or significantly 
increasing number of victims of severe forms of TIP. 
 
¶3. (SBU) The "Special Watch List" has been submitted to 
Congress, as required, along with the President's 
determinations for sanctions of Tier 3 countries.  The TVPA, 
as amended, now requires the Secretary to submit to Congress 
an Interim Assessment on the Special Watch List countries no 
later than February 1, 2010. 
 
4.(SBU) The Interim Assessment, which the Department plans to 
release on January 5, 2010, will serve as a narrowly-focused 
progress report, assessing a country's progress on key 
recommendations highlighted in the June 2009 TIP Report. 
Measuring progress or lack of progress in addressing these 
deficiencies is the main purpose of the Interim Assessment. 
This will not/not serve as a large-scale analysis of 
anti-trafficking efforts in the relevant country.  Similarly, 
it will not describe the trafficking problem in that country 
(readers can refer to the 2009 TIP Report for that). 
Finally, it will not mention Tiers or allude to progress in 
achieving a higher tier or, conversely, forecast a fall to a 
lower tier. 
 
¶5. (U) Action Request for Action Addressees:  Please answer 
the questions addressed to your Post in para 6 in concise 
analytical terms, citing examples of the progress (or lack 
thereof) sparingly.  Post's submission should not exceed four 
or five paragraphs.  The final Interim Assessment will 
include a narrative of no more than half a page on each 
country's progress.  Please provide these responses to the 
Department via front-channel cable -- slugged for AF/RSA and 
G/TIP -- no later than November 16. 
 
¶6. (U) Interim Assessment Requirements: 
 
¶A. FOR EMBASSY ABIDJAN:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Cote d,Ivoire has made in: 
(a) increasing efforts to investigate, prosecute, and convict 
traffickers; (b)developing systematic procedures for 
identifying trafficking victims among women and girls in 
prostitution; (c)stepping up efforts to educate government 
officials about trafficking, particularly child sex 
trafficking; (e)intensifying efforts to provide care to 
trafficking victims by making available funds allocated for 
construction of victim shelters; and (f)ensuring that 
trafficking victims are not penalized for acts committed as a 
direct result of being trafficked. Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
 
¶B. FOR EMBASSY ABUJA: Please summarize the progress, or lack 
thereof, the Government of Nigeria has made in: (a) 
continuing strong efforts to prosecute and convict 
trafficking offenders; (b) reconsidering the practice of 
interrogating suspected traffickers in Lagos in the same 
building where trafficking victims are sheltered; and (c) 
ensuring that victims, rights are respected and that they 
are not detained involuntarily in shelters.  Please report on 
any other significant developments. 
 
 
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¶C. FOR EMBASSY ACCRA:  Please summarize the progress, or lack 
thereof, the Government of Ghana has made in:(a)increasing 
efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking offenders, 
including those who subject children to forced labor in the 
Lake Volta fishing industry and those who force foreign women 
into prostitution; (b)establishing additional victim 
shelters, particularly for sex trafficking victims; 
(c)continuing to apply Trafficking Victim Fund monies to 
victim care; and(d) training officials to identify 
trafficking victims among women in prostitution and to 
respect victims' rights.  Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
 
¶D. FOR EMBASSY BAMAKO: Please summarize the progress, or lack 
thereof, the Government of Mali has made in: (a) 
investigating and prosecuting trafficking offenses, including 
cases of traditional slavery, and convicting and punishing 
trafficking offenders under existing laws; (b)criminalizing 
the trafficking of adults for all purposes, including 
slavery; (c)developing a system for collecting data on 
trafficking crimes and the number of victims identified and 
referred by government authorities to service providers for 
care; and(d)increasing efforts to raise public awareness 
about trafficking and traditional hereditary slavery.  Please 
report on any other significant developments. 
 
¶E. FOR EMBASSY BANGUI:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of the Central African Republic 
has made in: (a)Passing and enacting the 2006 
anti-trafficking law; (b)developing procedures through which 
police and social workers may identify trafficking victims 
among vulnerable populations - such as females in 
prostitution, abandoned and street children, and Pygmies ) 
and training police and social workers to implement these 
procedures; (c)ending the practice of jailing children who 
are victims of sex trafficking; (d)providing care to children 
in commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, in 
collaboration with NGOs and the international community as 
appropriate; and (e)increasing overall efforts to educate the 
public about the dangers of trafficking.  Please report on 
any other significant developments. 
 
¶F. FOR EMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE:  Please summarize the progress, 
or lack thereof, the Government of the Republic of Congo has 
made in:(a) training law enforcement officials to identify 
traffickers and arrest them under relevant laws; and (b) 
training social workers and law enforcement officials to 
identify trafficking victims among vulnerable populations and 
to refer them to foreign government consulates, foster 
families, international organizations, faith-based groups, or 
NGOs for care.  Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
¶G. FOR EMBASSY BUJUMBURA:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Burundi has made in: 
(a)utilizing the anti-trafficking provisions of the newly 
passed criminal code amendments to prosecute and convict 
trafficking offenders; (b)establishing an official process 
for law enforcement and social welfare officials to interview 
potential trafficking victims and refer them for assistance; 
(c) taking steps to remove children trafficked into 
prostitution and domestic servitude and providing them with 
protective services; (d)launching a nationwide 
anti-trafficking public awareness campaign; and (e) providing 
training on human trafficking to new police and border 
guards.  Please report on any other significant developments. 
 
H.FOR EMBASSY DAKAR: Please summarize the progress, or lack 
thereof, the Government of Senegal has made in: (a) 
intensifying efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking 
offenders; (b) ensuring that the Ministry of the Interior's 
Special Commissariat Against Sex Tourism and the Tourism 
Ministry's sex tourism police unit arrest suspected sex 
tourists and rescue their victims; and(c) increasing efforts 
to raise awareness about trafficking.  Please report on any 
other significant developments. 
 
¶I. FOR EMBASSY DAKAR (GUINEA-BISSAU):  Please summarize the 
 
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progress, or lack thereof, the Government of Guinea-Bissau 
has made in: (a) enacting the draft law prohibiting 
trafficking in persons; (b) increasing efforts to prosecute 
and punish trafficking offenders under forced labor and 
trafficking-related laws; (c)investigating establishments 
where children are subjected to commercial sexual 
exploitation in order to rescue child victims and arrest 
trafficking offenders; (d)investigating whether girls are 
trafficked to Senegal for domestic servitude; and 
(e)finalizing and enacting the draft anti-trafficking 
national action plan.  Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
¶J. FOR EMBASSY DJIBOUTI:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Djibouti has made in: 
(a)continuing to enforce the anti-trafficking statute through 
the successful prosecution of trafficking offenders; 
(b)launching a nationwide campaign to educate all levels of 
government officials and the general public on the issue of 
human trafficking; (c)developing a plan for providing 
training on the anti-trafficking law and its provisions to 
law enforcement and social welfare officials, including 
judges, lawyers, police, immigration officers, and social 
workers; (d) establishing mechanisms for providing increased 
protective services to trafficking victims, possibly through 
he forging of partnerships with NGOs or civil society. Please 
report on any other significant developments. 
 
¶K. FOR EMBASSY KINSHASA:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of the Democratic Republic of 
Congo has  made in: (a)increasing efforts to prosecute and 
punish trafficking offenders, particularly those who 
conscript child soldiers, utilize forced labor, or control 
children in prostitution;(b)punishing military and other law 
enforcement personnel found unlawfully using local 
populations to perform forced labor or mine for minerals;(c) 
working in partnership with NGOs or religious entities to 
ensure the provision of short-term protective services to 
children who are trafficking victims; and (d)working with 
concession holders to educate mine operators and workers 
about the illegality of utilizing forced labor.  Please 
report on any other significant developments. 
 
¶L. FOR EMBASSY LIBREVILLE:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Gabon has made in: 
(a)increasing efforts to prosecute trafficking offenses and 
convict and punish trafficking offenders; (b)drafting and 
enacting legislation prohibiting the trafficking of adults; 
(c)investigating reports of government complicity in 
trafficking; (d)developing formal procedures to identify 
trafficking victims among females in prostitution; (e) ending 
the practice of placing victims in jail, even temporarily; 
and (f) taking steps to combat the forced labor of Pygmies. 
Please report on any other significant developments. 
 
¶M. FOR EMBASSY LUANDA:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Angola has made in: 
(a)enacting laws to prohibit and punish all forms of 
trafficking in persons;  (b)increase the capacity of law 
enforcement officials to identify and protect victims; 
(c)systematically collect data on offenses, victims, and 
prosecutions; and (d) reporting on these activities.  Please 
report on any other significant developments. 
 
¶N. FOR EMBASSY MALABO:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Equatorial Guinea  has made 
in: (a) making greater use of the country,s 2005 
anti-trafficking law and law enforcement and judicial 
personnel to investigate, prosecute, and convict trafficking 
offenders; (c)training additional law enforcement officials 
and Conciliation Delegates to follow formal procedures to 
identify trafficking victims among child laborers, illegal 
immigrants, and women and girls in prostitution; 
(d)establishing a formal system for providing trafficking 
victims with assistance; (e)ceasing deportation of any 
foreign trafficking victims from Equatoguinean territory 
without providing them with care and safe and voluntary 
repatriation; and(f) increasing efforts to raise public 
 
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awareness about trafficking. Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
 
¶O. FOR EMBASSY MBABANE: Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Swaziland has made in: (a) 
intensifying efforts to prosecute and punish trafficking 
offenders, especially public officials complicit in or 
facilitating human trafficking; (b)increasing investigation 
into potential labor trafficking situations; (c)continuing to 
increase victim assistance and shelter services; (d) 
providing greater legal protections for undocumented and 
foreign trafficking victims; (e)increasing prevention and 
demand-reduction efforts; (f)increasing efforts to identify 
and care for all trafficking victims; and (g)increasing 
anti-trafficking training for government and judicial 
officials.  Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
¶P. FOR EMBASSY PORT LOUIS:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Mauritius has made in: (a) 
utilizing newly passed anti-trafficking legislation to 
investigate and prosecute trafficking offenses and convicting 
and punishing trafficking offenders; (b) designating an 
official coordinating body or mechanism to facilitate 
improved anti-trafficking communication and coordination 
among the relevant ministries, law enforcement entities, 
working groups, and NGOs; and (c)increasing protective 
services available to victims of child commercial sexual 
exploitation, particularly in regard to safe shelter and 
educational opportunities.  Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
¶Q. FOR EMBASSY YAOUNDE: Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Cameroon has made 
in:(a)increasing efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking 
offenders; (b)educating police, judges, lawyers, and social 
workers about the law against child trafficking;(c)finalizing 
and enacting the draft law criminalizing the trafficking of 
adults;(d) investigating reports of hereditary slavery in the 
Northern Province; and(e) developing and implementing formal 
procedures through which law enforcement and victim 
protection officials may systematically identify trafficking 
victims among vulnerable populations and refer them for care. 
 Please report on any other significant developments. 
CLINTON