I believe it is the religion and traditions that is to blame. The AU is  
only a hodge podge of these. The fetishization of albino body parts and the  
Almoodu systems are but a permutation of these odious crimes.
 
Their time will expire if no politician is brave enough to champion the  
causes.
 
Take care Niamorkono. Iforoyaata baake.
 
Haruna.
 
 
In a message dated 1/11/2011 3:31:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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I can't agree more Haruna..Slavery is inhuman and should not exist any  
where on this planet.
 
However on Mauritania and Sudan is the AU to be blamed for failing  to 
solve this criminal atrocities against our black folks for such a long time  
now...Imokende
 
Niamorkono...


On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask] 
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Thanx Niamorkono for sharing. Mauritania and Sudan have always  been the 
wild-cards in eradicating slavery and colonization in West  Africa.
 
Haruna.
 
 
 

 
In a message dated 1/6/2011 1:32:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
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Land Confiscation in  Mauritania
>  The local authorities in Mauritania are pursuing their dangerous  
project to take southerners’ agricultural land. In Fuuta, name of that  region of 
southern Mauritania, represent a large portion of the band that  mark the 
transition from the Sahara desert to what is commonly called Sub  Saharan 
Africa. It used to be part of the Ghana empire before falling in  Mauritania, 
Senegal and Mali after French subdivided what they called  French Soudan into 
the above three countries around 1900. In that country  (region) land is 
life. It is the representation of one’s family wealth and  ownership. The 
livelihood consists of farming and livestock growing cows,  sheep and goats.  
>  That region has always been the target of the nomad Moors. Endless  
deadly conflicts took place throughout history. The attachment to the land  of 
the Fuuta population can be described as religious. The land is what  they 
swear with. The land determines power and family membership. A young  man at 
the age of marrying is offered a piece of land by his father to  cultivate in 
order to attend to the needs of his future family. 
>  The nomad moors (Arabs), with their herds of camels travel from  place 
to place in search of water and grass for their livestock during dry  
seasons. Other caravans come for trans-Saharan trade needs. They travel  from the 
desert north to the relatively wet south where live the Blacks  halpular, 
Wolof, Soninke and other black African ethnic groups. They setup  camps in the 
outskirt of the villages. For reasons of history, although it  is out of the 
scope of this posting, it is during these trips that they  kidnap black 
children playing around the villages or sent to get wood, or  also, working as 
herd keepers. Those kidnapped kids are used as workforce;  see here the 
origin of the slavery as we know it later as centuries’ long  and lucrative 
international trade. 
>  No need to say that in the era globalization and the race of the  fast 
growing economies and over populated countries for land grabbing, the  
traditional way of hand farming must leave the place to a modern more  productive 
way. It is, also, true the people from Fuuta have no means to  put that land 
to exploitation at a large scale. They are impoverished by  decades of 
discrimination and hard hand dictatorship many dramatic results  on their lives. 
Some of my other postings go in detail about these  exactions. There is a 
real need for modernization of the agriculture, but  it must go with in mind 
the interests of the real owners of the land. Any  project of exploitation; 
be it by nationals or foreigners must start with  discussions with the local 
populations who own it since centuries. No  mandate from any authority 
should override the traditional ownership of  the land. Instead of giving the 
land to foreign investors, the government  should create an environment of 
trust and work with the farmers to meets  the millennium goal of food 
self-sufficiency. 
>  “Land and blood are closely linked in the Fuuta” say the locals  
literally and figuratively to demonstrate how sacred are these lands.  
Consequently a responsible approach is necessary to avoid risk of serious  trouble. 
French colons did try during a longtime to take over those  fertile zones. 
Faced with a tough resistance they resort to imposing a tax  for land use. Later 
some Arab emirs tried to extend to their own benefit  that tax. Local 
chiefs like Thierno Souleymane Ball, historic figure in  the region, refused to 
pay and fought to break that domination.  
>  Today, local authorities sent by the central Arab government  believe, 
maybe, after decades of suffering and poverty le land grab will  be easy and 
no need to convene with anyone but the money holders (Saudi  investors). 
They are using legislation they made few years back in the  80’s in the intent 
to legalize that expropriation. In that piece of  legislation they place the 
arable land belonging to families since two  thousand years in the public 
domain; as such, it belongs to anyone who has  the means to develop it.  
>  By Mamadou Guisse
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