He is a Mauritanian young man, Mr. Abdel Wadood Ould Mohamed Salem born in 1978 in Ksar district, which is the oldest district in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital. That is where he went to school and high school and obtained his baccalaureate degree.

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.

On the eastern borders between Mauritania and Mali, specifically in the Mbera camp for Malian refugees, thousands of children live in difficult humanitarian conditions due to the ghost of illiteracy, which now haunts them as a result of the lack of a sufficient number of educational institutions on the one hand, and the conditions that force a big number of them to work at an early age to meet the family needs on the other.

Malian children in the M'berra camp are losing their lives in order that Islamists groups in North Mali keep fighting the governments of neighbouring countries. They have been recruited by the armed groups active in North Mali. They are killed during fighting or suicide attacks.

The new fishing strategy risks depriving local fishermen from their work. In Mauritania, local fisheries weighs 90% of all jobs among the 53000 workers in the fishing sector The fishing industry is the main provider of job in the country and plays a major role in fighting unemployment in the country while it contributes to a quarter of all tax income and half of all foreign currency income.