UN peacekeepers lured underage Ivory Coast girls

September 02, 2011 15:58

United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast lured poor and underage girls in the West African nation to have sex with them in exchange for food, a United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks has revealed.

The cable written in January 2010 focuses on the behavior of Beninese peacekeepers stationed in the western town of Toulepleu, an area that has been at the crosshairs of the nation''s 10-year-long conflict.

An aid group, Save The Children U.K. in 2009, has found in a random poll that eight out of ten underage girls (respondents) in Toulepleu performed sexual acts for Benin peacekeepers on a regular basis in order to secure their most basic needs.

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