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Khartoum vows to prosecute slavers

    NAIROBI

    Sudan has pledged to prosecute slavers and has urged the population to report cases of slavery, AFP reported Khartoum newspapers as saying today. The government’s Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights said in a communique that public prosecutors’ offices across the country were open to all those who had information on slavery cases so that prosecutions could be started. The communique said slavery was forbidden by international conventions to which Sudan subscribes and by the country’s constitution. The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Sudan, Leonardo Franco, is due in the country on Saturday on a 10-day tour. He is expected to probe cases of slavery.

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