Mauritania: Anti-Slavery Groups Denounce Ongoing Practice of Human Bondage

Sghaira Mint Tesh does not remember the long-ago day she became the property of Arab slave owners. She does not know her exact age, or that of the infant daughter she cradles in her arms. The northwest African country of Mauritania outlawed slavery in 1981, but, despite government denials it still exists and anti-slavery groups say the practice remains widespread.