Dar es Salaam, April 17 -- DAR ES SALAAM: AT this point, let us not sugarcoat it, human trafficking in Tanzania is clandestinely real, though not out of control unlike in other parts of the world. And while meetings, speeches and reports are piling up on the crime, what is desperately needed is action. Real action.

Immediate, visible, justice-delivering action. That is the call from the National AntiHuman Trafficking Network (TANAHUT), a frontline watchdog in the war against human trafficking.

Addressing the media in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, TANAHUT Director, Advocate Edwin Mugambila, did not mince words. He made it clear that while the fight against trafficking is ongoing, progress is being tripped up by sluggish responses from law en...