Mauritania: Unshackled Yet Far From Free, Ex-Slaves Struggle Anew in Mauritania

Nouakchott — Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery - in 1981 - and only criminalised it in 2007.

Mbarka Mint Essatim was 23 when she discovered she was a slave.

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