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People move freely between Benin and Nigeria from the Seme-Krake border post a day after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari lifted the closure of borders with neighbouring Benin and Niger, which it imposed in August 2019 to curb the smuggling of rice and other commodities. IMAGES
Badagry (Nigeria), Jun 17 (EFE / EPA) .- Following the death of George Floyd and the call for the elimination of Confederate monuments in the USA, many Nigerians, including far-left intellectuals, are asking the government to review the sculptures of indigenous slave owners in public spaces.(CAMERA: Akintunde Akinleye)
The merchants at the Lequertier workshop in Mondeville prepare fish products for shipment to fish merchants. The business of about a hundred employees could suffer from the effects of Brexit if French fishermen continue to be deprived of the waters off the Channel Island of Guernsey. Secretary of State for European Affairs Amélie de Montchalin assured that this would no longer be the case by the end of the week. IMAGES
The EU's top official hit back Wednesday at Donald Trump, saying "trade wars are bad and easy to lose" as the bloc prepared to retaliate against the US president's planned steel and aluminium tariffs. SOUNDBITE
In the past, it was legal to own another human being and do with their lives as you please, including forcing them to work, harming them, or even trading them to others. Many countries allowed citizens to keep slaves. This are the grounds of Santa Eufrasia, a former slave plantation located just outside of Rio de Janeiro. Elisabeth Dolson, the modern day owner of the former plantation, has opened the building to tourists, showing visitors where slaves once worked and allowing them to feel the cruelty and hardship for themselves. Dolson wears clothing typical of Brazilian plantation owners and adopts the character of a plantation owner for show. In fact, she has even reportedly paid Afro-Brazilians to dress as slaves and serve coffee to guests. Not surprisingly, Brazilian authorities criticized the project for glorifying Brazil's history of slavery and forced her to stop mentioning slavery to advertise her plantation. Santa Eufrasia was erected in 1830, during the height of the Brazilian slave trade. It is estimated that nearly 5 million slaves were brought to Brazil between 1501 to 1866, about 40 percent of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas and more than any other Western country. Brazil was also the last country to abolish slavery in 1888, and Santa Eufrasia became unprofitable without slave labor. Elisabeth Dolson's direct descendant, Colonel Horacio Jose de Lemos, bought the plantation after abolishion and never used slave labor to run it. Although Dolson's idea to reopen the plantation as a tourist attraction certainly is original, it's no wonder that it has fired up a storm of controversy by forcing Brazilians to discuss a very uncomfortable part of their history.
British Prime Minister David Cameron tells the Jamaican parliament his administration will not make reparations for the country's role in the Caribbean slave trade. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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