Mauritania has the world's highest prevalence of slavery, about 140,000 or more of its 3.8 million people are SLAVES; http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/africa/mauritania-confronts-long-legacy-of-slavery.html?ref=africa&

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