[File, Standard] Hundreds of young women have been rushing to the Middle East countries for household ... dreams of a better life in foreign land. Slavery was not abolished in Saudi Arabia until ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

This could also rekindle scrutiny of a grim history that paints Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East in an unflattering hue. Many young Africans don’t know that the Arab slave trade spanned so ...

Maid slavery • The exposé by the New York Times ... agencies “recruiting Kenyan women for servitude in the Middle East” is, Taabu Tele says, “proof of an evil practice of maid slavery”.

Listen to Shaibu Inusah on the trade ... the East, doors with gold locks, women wearing huge precious stones, musicians enlivening the banquets, beds covered with damask; and an army of slaves ...

British Abolitionists, familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, had little knowledge about state coercion of the local peasantry because it was a localised institution that existed in the Middle ...

He called on governments to acknowledge the truth and finally honour the trade ... slave trade, located at UN Headquarters in New York. Standing solemnly against the backdrop of the East River ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit with the Middle East widened by 9.75 per cent to $9.349 billion in the first eight months of 2024-25 compared to $8.518bn a year ago, primarily driven by ...