Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania's presidential election – Telegraph
Officially, slavery has long been abolished in Mauritania, but the law has never been enforced and there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country’s 3.2 million people, almost 150 years since the American civil war.
Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election – Telegraph
