A mediation committee in southern Sudan has secured the freedom of 85 black Sudanese boys who had been held as slaves, Christian Solidarity International reports. The Arab-Dinka Peace Committee facilitated the rescue, which was documented last week by an international team of researchers sponsored by CSI. The freed slave boys were among the tens of thousands of black women and children who had been enslaved by Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two decades of civil war. All of the boys reported that they were forced to work without pay and were frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults. According to CSI,...