Slavery in Mauritania Persists Despite Efforts to Abolish It 

 The U.S. State Department’s annual report on trafficking in persons said
Mauritania does not fully comply with minimum standards for eliminating
the practice and is not making "significant efforts" to do so. From
Nouakchott, Ahmed Moussa reports on a family held captive more than 30
years after Mauritanian formally outlawed slavery. Salem Solomon
narrates.