In June 2013, a Somali interpreter working at the headquarters of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) approached 17-year-old Aziza D.βnot her real nameβand asked her to βbefriendβ a Ugandan soldier. He told the girl, who had been struggling to survive in one of Mogadishuβs camps for displaced people, that the soldier could get her anything she needed if she treated him like βhe was her husbandβ and βmade him feel comfortable.β
After she met the soldier and it was clear that she was expected to have sex with him, she had second thoughts. The interpreter told her she could not leave and ignored her cries and pleas not to be left alone with him. βWhen I resisted the soldierβs advances, he became angry and brought back the interpreter who threatened me in Somali,β she told Human Rights Watch.