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Libya today is far from what it was under Colonel Ghaddaffi. In those days it was a strong sovereign state with ample wealth derived from oil. . . . Failed government policies in many sub-Saharan countries have led to great poverty for the masses and a sense on hopelessness in the youth. . . Is it any surprise that black Africans are being enslaved and sold in Libya and elsewhere in the Arab worls? Under the Jammeh regime women especially were being taken to Kuwait or one of the other Arab states and sold into semi-slavery. Freedom publicized a few...

Dubai's ruler has been accused of enslaving thousands of young children for camel races in a class-action lawsuit filed in the US. The action claims Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, his brother Hamdam and 500 others are responsible for abducting and trafficking the children. It was filed on behalf of six unidentified parents and thousands of unnamed children. There has been no comment on the action from the accused. The children were said to be from Bangladesh, Sudan and southern Asia. Once in Dubai, it is claimed that the children - some of them as young as two - were...

It doesn't matter whether John Howard or Mark Latham wins Australia's federal election, a newcomer on the political scene here says. For within a fortnight, the Enslave New Zealand Party or enslavenz for short, says it will take over Australian politics. As its name suggests, this will be bad for New Zealanders. In one of the weirder forays on to the political scene, enslavenz's leader, who wishes to remain anonymous to avoid "vicious New Zealand death squads", said on his Party's website enslavenz.org - that he wanted to conquer and enslave New Zealand, giving every Australian household a Kiwi slave....