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There is little known about Mauritania, kept in the dark voluntarily because of power and national corruption. Five times bigger than Italy with a population

On the final full day of the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported between four and six Mauritarians to a nation the Trump administration

The president of Mauritania’s human rights commission, Ahmed Salem Bouhoubeyni, talks about the organisation’s efforts to root out slavery in the country. Despite being illegal

Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the UN Human

GENEVA (IDN) – Biram Dah Abeid, a descendant of former slaves who has been called « the Nelson Mandela of Mauritania », and Shaparak Shajarizadeh, a prominent