Paris, France, Aug 31, 2026 (AFP) - The prickly issue of financial compensation for slavery

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2026-08-31

A United Nations watchdog says countries involved in the transatlantic slave trade of the 16th to 19th century are legally obliged to compensate for the harm they caused. But while most of the many countries implicated agree to symbolic or commemorative measures, they are reluctant to address the sensitive issue of financial or material reparations for the trade, which saw millions of African men, women and children shipped to the Americas to wor......

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