NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself...
NOUAKCHOTT , Mauritania — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania , a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence, but has been denounced for rights abuses.
Earlier this year, the European Union announced a 210 million-euro fund to help Mauritania crack down on people smugglers and deter migrant boats from taking off, as the number of people attempting the dangerous Atlantic Ocean crossing from West Africa to Europe rises sharply.
“The Mauritanian regime has always lived on the pillage of wealth, the repression of populations and the use of forgery," Dah Abied told The Associated Press after a rally in Nouakchott, the country's capital, where he was greeted with slogans “Zero Ghazouani” and “Long live Biram.”There is no real separation of powers either, Dah Abied said. “In reality, justice is not independent and there is no independent legislative power,” he said.
“My father was freed from slavery when he was in his mother’s womb,” he told the AP. But then he married a woman in the situation of slavery, Dah Abied said, and he saw his children being sold.
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