US EditionMauritanian anti-slavery stalwart Boubacar Ould Messaoud dead
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The co-founder of the Action for Change party and founder of SOS Slaves, an NGO working to eradicate slavery in Mauritania, died on Thursday in Nouakchott.
Boubacar Ould Messaoud, figure of the anti-slavery struggle in Mauritania, died on Thursday 12 March at the age of 80. He had founded SOS Slaves, which works for the eradication of slavery in Mauritania and support for the reintegration of the victims of slavery into society in 1995. The organization had operated for years without official recognition, before obtaining legal status in 2005.
The Mauritanian activist had founded SOS Slaves, which works to eradicate slavery in Mauritania and support the reintegration of victims of slavery into society.
Rights activist: Mauritanian anti-slavery stalwart Boubacar Ould Messaoud dead
Prominent Mauritanian human rights activist Boubacar Ould Messaoud, head of the SOS Slaves organization, passed away in Nouakchott at dawn on Thursday at the age of eighty, after a long career defending victims of slavery and fighting against slavery. Born in the mid-1940s in the Touikendi region, Ould Messaoud spent his childhood under the yoke of slavery, working as a shepherd, farmhand, and in domestic service before rebelling against the rea…
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