MAURITANIA: Former slaves struggle in new home
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Ramadan Ould Semette, a former slave in southern Mauritania who has moved with hundreds of other ex-slaves to create their own desert commune. CLICK IMAGE TO READ FULL STORY FROM IRIN AFRICA...
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Starting over.. (directly from article on IRIN Africa website)
Moving on and building a livelihood is particularly tough in a country where most people already live in difficult conditions. Half of Mauritania is uninhabited and inhospitable desert territory; nearly half of its three million people have no access to safe water, according to the UN; and the food monitoring group FEWSNET estimated that more than 330,000 people suffered from malnutrition as of October 2008.
Photo Credit: Seyid O. Seyid/IRIN
Moving on and building a livelihood is particularly tough in a country where most people already live in difficult conditions. Half of Mauritania is uninhabited and inhospitable desert territory; nearly half of its three million people have no access to safe water, according to the UN; and the food monitoring group FEWSNET estimated that more than 330,000 people suffered from malnutrition as of October 2008.
Photo Credit: Seyid O. Seyid/IRIN