The Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab World, namely West Asia, North Africa, East Africa and certain parts of Europe (such as More

The Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab World, namely West Asia, North Africa, East Africa and certain parts of Europe (such as Sicily and Iberia) during their period of domination by Arab leaders. The trade was focused on the slave markets of the Middle East and North Africa. People traded were not limited to a certain color, ethnicity, or religion and included Arabs and Berbers, especially in its early days. Later, during the 8th and 9th centuries of the Islamic Caliphate, most of the slaves were Slavic Eastern Europeans (called Saqaliba), people from surrounding Mediterranean areas, Persians, Turks, peoples from the Caucasus mountain regions (such as Georgia, Armenia and Circassia) and parts of Central Asia and Scandinavia, Berbers from North Africa, and various other peoples of varied origins as well as those of Black African origins. Later, toward the 18th and 19th centuries, slaves increasingly came from East Africa. It still continues today in a smaller form where children and women are kidnapped from India, Bangladesh and other countries and sold illegally to rich Arabs.
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These two european women worked for Medicines sans frontieres in Dadaab the worlds largest refugee camp from the famine in Somalia,the two spanish More

These two european women worked for Medicines sans frontieres in Dadaab the worlds largest refugee camp from the famine in Somalia,the two spanish women were driving to a clinic for sick children when they were abducted by somali militia members of Al shabbabb to be sold on a chattels or slaves if you wish to be sold back to who ever will inevitably pay the ransom or market price .These unfortunate women are the most recent victims of this medieval practice of kidnap and ransom by somalie group Al shababb who killed an Englishman and kidnapped his wife in september and last week kidnapped a disabled French woman from her kenyan hotel .
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