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Weekend: African and Caribbean countries united to request slave trade reparations

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African and Caribbean countries to form a united front to request slave trade reparations

26/11/2023 GMT

African and Caribbean countries united to request slave trade reparations

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African and Caribbean countries to form a united front to request slave trade reparations for “historic mass crimes”.

African and Caribbean countries are to come together to get European nations to pay for “historic mass crimes” relating to the slave trade. They would work with the United Nations to assess whether acts of enslavement constituted serious violations of human rights.
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(Photo: A performance on the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the African Union's conference on reparations in Accra, Ghana, 14 November, 2023. Credit: Reuters)

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