Jan 29, 2025 · Over 50 million people are affected by modern slavery worldwide, with forced labour generating $236 billion in illegal profits annually. More cohesive data sharing strategies …

Feb 10, 2025 · The International Labour Organisation estimates that some 50 million individuals are caught up in forms of modern slavery today. Africa accounts for around 7 million of the …

Slavery in contemporary Africa continues despite it being illegal. In the relevant literature, African slavery is indigenous slavery and export slavery, depending on whether they were traded …

Jul 13, 2023 · In Africa, Nigeria had the highest number of people living in modern slavery, with an estimated 1.6 million people. Ethiopia and Egypt followed in second and third with around …

Jul 23, 2018 · Armed conflict, state-sponsored forced labor, and forced marriages were the main causes behind the estimated 9.2 million Africans who live in servitude without the choice to do …

Oct 29, 2021 · Although slavery as an institution was officially abolished in Mali during colonial rule more than a century ago, the so-called “descent-based slavery” still persists today.

Feb 27, 2017 · Between 1400 and 1900, the African continent experienced four sizeable slave trades. The largest and best-known was the trans-Atlantic slave trade where, beginning in the …

Modern slavery's definitions have evolved, encompassing not only 'ownership' but also forced marriages, government-imposed labor, and human trafficking. While Asian countries have the …

from West Africa, Central Africa and Eastern Africa were captured and shipped to European colonies in inhumane conditions. Slavery and Africa’s underdevelopment. Many researchers …

Dec 1, 2022 · Children in Burkina Faso engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in artisanal gold mining and quarrying. The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade “reverberates …

Over 40 million people are estimated to be trapped in forced labour, forced marriages or other forms of sexual exploitation, according to the United Nations. Blessing, now 11, is one such...

Feb 25, 2022 · The risk of modern slavery is exceptionally high in Africa. Over 80% of sub-Saharan African countries feature in the two highest-risk categories, including Kenya and …

Feb 3, 2025 · Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications . Published online December 30, 2024. doi: …

Sep 26, 2019 · Africans raided for slaves often in connivance with local chiefs and then acted as middlemen with European and Arab purchasers. She recounts stories of the ambivalence of at …

The slave trade in the 19th century consisted of two overlapping sectors. The first was a trade in enslaved Africans to markets along the Indian Ocean coast from northern Mozambique to …

6 days ago · He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, …

Feb 11, 2025 · It is estimated that during the duration of slavery at least 11 million were captured in Africa. This meant that about 45,000 slaves entered the Americas per year.

22 hours ago · Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of …