Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - February 22, 2025 His pictures of child slaves called “Talibés” in Senegal were chosen as World Press Photo of the Year in 2016. Mario Cruz is an independent ...

Ibrahima and Oumar are 'talibe' - child slaves, forced to beg and steal for ... It has become a way of life in Senegal, where thousands of young boys - some only six or seven years old - are ...

A woman from Senegal described what’s at stake as the Trump administration targets immigrants for deportation. “We are not ...

Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in the south to Senegal in the north ... across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New World slave owners, who bought slaves to work their crops.

In 1793, in response to this demand, successful merchants built the Goree Warehouses, named after Senegal's Goree Islands ... brought an end to the British slave trade. Artist Samuel Austin ...

Since Senegal gained its independence in 1960 after more than three centuries of French rule, Gorée Island, home to the House of Slaves, has become a distinct memorial to the slave trade.

It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthrall For the lands of Virginia-ginia O; Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more, And alas! I am weary, weary O! Torn from that ...