Mali: Families in Mali splintered by slavery as culture and conflict converge

Tuareg rebels are capitalising on fighting in Mali to reacquire former captives whom they regard as their property from birth

Celeste Hicks in Bamako

"I haven't heard anything about my brother for more than a year," says Raichatou Walet Touka. She's been living at a safehouse in Bamako, Mali's capital, after fleeing the northern town of Gao following an attack by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a Tuareg rebel group that briefly took over northern Mali in early 2012.

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