Abdel Nasser was given his first slave, a cherubic 5-year-old named Yebawwa, in 1969. According to a tradition among so-called white Moors in Mauritania, a boy asks for a coveted object at the moment ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania _ In the rigid caste system of her Kunta tribe, Ghoive Mint Sabahr knew her place. From dawn to dusk, she tended cattle and goats on the sandy plains of central Mauritania.

The Mauritanian Government has been accused of doing nothing to stop slavery even though the practice was outlawed there 20 years ago. The human rights group, Amnesty International, said: "No concrete ...

Although Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1981 and made the practice a crime in 2007, slavery is still a common phenomenon in the country. A CNN special report titled “Slavery's last ...

Cincinnati, Ohio (CNN) — In the back of an African grocery store in northern Cincinnati, Bakary uses a jigsaw to slice the heads off frozen fish. This life is a dream come true – something he never ...

DAR EL BARKA, Mauritania, Nov 07 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Day after day, Aminetou Mint Yarg and her fellow villagers in southern Mauritania haul water from the river and tend to their crops ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mister X, hip hop impresario of Nouakchott, tells the history of slavery in rap. In a four-act “slam,” as it's known here — basically an episodic mix of spoken-word poetry and ...