Source:
Guardian
Country:
Mali, Mauritania, Niger (the)
Anti-slavery activists are fighting to stop former masters using the crisis to recapture Malians whom they see as their property
For the estimated 800,000 people of "slave descent" in Mali, life is precarious at the best of times. In the most extreme cases, people descended from slaves are treated as objects and their children do not belong to them but to their "masters".
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