Mauritanian slavery system is worst in modern world but campaigners are jailed for opposing it | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – It was a modest plan, a small but significant step in Mauritania’s achingly slow fight against slavery. In a caravan of four cars and two minibuses, tricked out with loudspeakers and banners, the activists and musicians would travel between towns and educate rural Mauritanians about the centuries-old problem of slavery. “No to slavery,”…