In ethnically diverse Mauritania, the government appears to have turned deaf ears to the demands of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, continuing policies which reproduce systemic anti-Black racism. As the world continues to…
Read more from the source : Global Voices
Tags : Mauritania, racism,
Abass Hamadi Diallo, born in 1986, was in southern Mauritania on 28 May near the border with Senegal that at the time was observing curfew regulations imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The young man, father of six, was helping a…
Read more from the source : Focus on Africa
Tags : Mauritania, racism,
Jérémie*, an Ivorian in his early thirties who arrived in Tunisia in early 2016, is reluctant to speak out. He says he suffered reprisals after appearing on a television report with his face uncovered. On a large, international French-language channel…
Read more from the source : Equal Times
Tags : Tunisia, black africans; migration, racism, exploitation,
The allegations that Mauritania is a new apartheid are monstruously wrong. The so-called human rights activists who claimed it do not mean it at all; it is an overstatement wrongly and unashamed voiced to mislead the international community for…
Read more from the source : Aqlam
Tags : Mauritania, slavery, racism,