Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't ...

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions ...

Trump recently suspended asylum claims in the U.S. and has taken other steps that could make winning existing cases more ...

Despite the legal abolition of slavery in Mauritania twenty years ago, the government is yet to take practical steps ensure its abolition in practice, Amnesty International said today in its report ...

by artists meditating on the impact of slavery on Black lives, past and present. On view, for example, is a 2023 portrait of Marème Diarra—a Malian woman formerly enslaved in Mauritania in the ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

Mauritania has Arab-Berber and Black African ethnic groups, and was the last country in the world to outlaw slavery. Human rights groups say the practice still persists. “There’s a tension in ...

The streets of Central Falls have looked like an abandoned wasteland because people are literally afraid to go outside,” ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...