Mauritania became the last country to abolish slavery 34 years ago, but despite ever harsher laws which now declare the practice a crime against humanity, a deeply ingrained resistance has made the ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — who is seeking a second term in office in a vote on Saturday — is promising more economic growth and social programs to ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two slave-owners in Mauritania face 10 and 20 years in prison after a court handed down the country's harshest anti-slavery ruling yet, activists said on Friday.

Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani addresses the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1, 2023 (photo by Dominika Zarzycka for NurPhoto via AP Images).

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Mauritania has passed a law promising jail time for slave-holders, an important step in the African country's push to eliminate a practice that has persisted despite a ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mauritania has passed a law promising jail time for slaveholders, an important step in the northwest African country's push to eliminate a practice that has quietly persisted ...

A University on the Edge of the Sahara Struggles to Become an Intellectual Oasis Saad Bou Kamara recalls becoming aware of the injustice around him. “I remember how astonished I was growing up to ...

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - They do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania. In the Saharan Islamic state, a centuries-old system of ...

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