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CNN’s documentary ‘Troubled Waters: Inside the child slavery trade’ is part of its Freedom Project. (Screenshot via YouTube)
AUSTRALIA

How CNN reported on ‘child slaves’ who were not really enslaved

Despite what a recent CNN documentary claims, there is no pervasive child slavery problem in Ghana’s Lake Volta region

  • Betty Mensah
  • Samuel Okyere
7 min read
In April 2017, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported that along the North African migrant routes its staff discovered ‘slave markets’. (David Ramos/Getty)
MODERN SLAVERY

Fact check: How many people are enslaved in the world today?

Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the US, across the globe or just in certain industries

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Slavery ended in Mauritania in 1981 but tens of thousands still live in bondage.
BHEKISISA TEAM

This is what life is like in the world’s last country to ban slavery

Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.

  • Bhekisisa Team
7 min read
The Eritrean government has no intention to change the unlimited national service that pushes the youth out of the country.
BARACK OBAMA

Eritrea’s new normal: The tragedy and the struggle for change

Eritreans have become desensitised; the slavery in Libya is “the new normal”

  • Staff Reporter
9 min read
Africa does not lack ideals; it has proclaimed them often and well. What it now requires is discipline, execution and political courage on a continental scale. The most fitting tribute to the founders will not be remembrance. It will be readiness.
ABIDJAN

Slavery dominates discussion at AU-EU Summit

​Modern-day slave markets in Libya were on the lips of African and European leaders at the opening of the summit in Abidjan

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Berlin
BURKINA FASO

Evacuate migrants enslaved in Libya, urges France’s Macron

Bound for the EU-Africa summit, President Macron told Burkina Faso students that migrant trafficking was a "crime against humanity."

  • Deutsche Welle 1
3 min read
The Global Slavery Index report estimates that there are at least 29.8-million people living in slavery.
CHILD MARRIAGES

A powerful weapon in the fight against modern slavery

The Global Slavery Index will help shape national and global efforts to root out modern slavery in Africa and across the world, writes Nick Grono.

  • Nick Grono
5 min read