Mauritania adopted a year ago a road map to put to an end the consequences of slavery. The road map is to be implemented together with the United Nations and the involvement of the civil society. However, victims are still suffering from their ordeal. Specifically those who thanks to the anti-slavery organisations, have been freed recently.

While they are well known and mediatised among Moors, the consequences of slavery have all the time existed in various Mauritanian communities (Moors, Halpulaar, Soninke, and Wolof). In the Soninke milieu, they are masked, even disguised. Ambitions of slave descendants are met with the reluctance from traditional chiefs, religious leaders often conniving with political elite; all are as many levers of feudalism.

Even though more than thirty years have gone by since the State of Mauritania officially abolished the slavery legitimacy witnessed by the traditional society due to internal tribal wars, this issue is still strongly set on the table and this phenomenon has become an embarrassing issue for the Civil State in international events.

Children begging in Mali in general and in Bamako in particular, has become a very serious scourge. These children spend their time begging at the traffic lights, in religious shrines and very often in front of hotels.