The guidance from CERD (Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) addresses the issue of reparations for slavery, specifically referring to the enslavement of Africans and the transatlantic slave trade. This document thus focuses on the trade of people between Africa and the Americas.
The article raises the question that this guidance deliberately omits trans-Saharan trafficking, that is, the slave trade across the Sahara destined for the Arabian Peninsula. The author questions the reasons for this omission, using the expression "go figure why," suggesting that the exclusion may not be accidental.
