Carrying the hopes of Mauritania's black Haratin community on his shoulders, presidential candidate vows to end enslavement and lift people out of poverty Mauritania opposition politician, ...

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Habi Mint Rabah was born a slave. She tells her story calmly, without self-pity: how her mother was kidnapped by slave traders; how she was separated from her family and forced to work in the kitchen ...

Mauritanian presidential candidate Biram Dah Abeid had been giving a speech in the sandy playground of a school-turned-voting station minutes after casting his vote in Saturday's presidential election ...