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 ...

Analysis - 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 ...

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

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

They had been promised safe passage from Mauritania to Spain. “We feared every day that our time had come, that we would be the next ones dead in the ocean,” said Mr Muhammad, a 29-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), opens new tab, France's third-biggest listed lender, has agreed to sell its subsidiary in Mauritania to a consortium led by asset manager Enko ...