Fatma Mint Mamadou, a freed slave, holds her four month old baby Boubacar outside her shack June 15,
Fatma Mint Mamadou, a freed slave, holds her four month old baby Boubacar outside her shack June 15, 1997 in Nouakchott, Mauritania.> Photo: Malcolm Linton.In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban. In 2007, “under international pressure”, the government passed a law allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted.Despite this, in 2018 Global Slavery Index estimated the number living in slavery in the country to be 90,000 (or 2.1% of the population), The vast majority of the slaves are Black population enslaved by Arab muslim masters.The position of the government of Mauritania is that talk of slavery “suggests manipulation by the West, an act of enmity toward Islam, or influence from the worldwide Jewish conspiracy.” [x] -- source link
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