mauritania. >> well, mauritania has a significant proportion of its population in slavery. >> hinojosa: so the proportion of the population in mauritania? >> is maybe 15-25%. >> hinojosa: enslaved. >> enslaved. but they have a long history of hereditary slavery there. >> hinojosa: but when you go, for example, to mauritania, or someone else, let's just say, are they going to see it? do they understand? do people understand what they're seeing, and is part of the work that you're doing in free the slaves is to teach us how to recognize what we need to be looking for? >> absolutely and it's interesting. you go to mauritania, you'd see someone literally in rags. say a 12-year-old boy, literally wearing rags. dirty, maybe scarred up, leading by the hand a beautifully dressed ten-year-old to take them to school. and you think, "wait, what is this, a servant? is this, like, the cousin nobody likes? i mean, what's going on here?" but the fact of the matter is this is one of the children of the slave family that belongs to the richer family that's sending the kid to school. >> hinojosa: and no

he was actually helping to install internet connectivity in mauritania. on the day he turned himself in, he'd actually met someone at the presidential palace to talk about installing internet access there. in march of 2014, i met with a doctor who told me in the months before mohamedou was arrested, mohamedou was volunteering to establish internet service at a local hospital to enable the doctors to communicate with doctors all around the world to better the care of their patients. so he was working, he was newly married, living with his family. >> host: he was working in mauritania, but his nationality -- >> guest: is mauritanian. mohamedou is from mauritania, yes. >> host: and you say the day he turned himself in. >> guest: yes. so in november of 2012, mauritanian officials came to his house and said that they wanted to talk to him -- >> host: 2002. >> guest: oh, sorry, 2002. correct. yes. they wanted to talk to him, and mohamedou said, yes, drove himself to the police station there in mauritania, and that began his now 15-year odyssey to guantanamo. >>

they thought he was still in prison in mauritania and fear the was bringing food and money to thekingjail every single day and they were taking the money.gaz his job is brother blaise said germany. and then they found that he was in guantanamo. i called the families grieving he is not there. they were so afraid the death threat was listen the in they would get into trouble so they contacted aa lawyer and that letter you had worked with my co-counsel and we were once key to getting involved in so we agreed to, dash in and we're told that we filed aso hideous petition in thestar liberty was there ultimately that is how we started on this long journey with him.my p >> this is a selfishbu question from my perspective but you have written about in fiction and nonfiction in elegance.t can you talk about the co difference of other people's stories verses the ones that you come up with yourself? [laughter] >> the big difference for me with the devilsls highway but a lot of the stuff is aor deeply felt to write my day at the zoo reporting because those to ev write at the borders the people com

>> a 45-year-old man from mauritania, which is a country in africa.1 a couple months after 9/11, local authorities came to his house and asked him to come to the police station to talk to them. he drove in his own car to the police station and then he disappeared. he was taken from mauritania to jordan where he spent eight months. he was then taken to bagram air force base in afghanistan and finally august 2002 was brought to guantÁnamo and has been there ever since. mohammed do is one of the kindest and funniest people i've ever met. i was fortunate enough in march of 2014 to go back to mauritania to meet his family and friends. one of his friends told me a story that really captured his spirit. he was talking about when they were children together they used to play soccer with the neighborhood children and his children did they would sometimes get competitive than they would kick each other, trip each other in an effort to make a goal. i remember a was getting competitive and he tripped another child who fell down. where their children would keep go

gas in west africa, a record 5 trillion cubic meters straddle the over the between senegal and mauritania. the exploration hasn't been completed, but what to do with these untapped natural resources is a source of heated debate in parliament. the senegalese government that yet to negotiate ownership with neighboring countries. others say they need to improve the economy first. >> it is not a cause for conflict but chances are will escalate existing tenses. senegal needs to diversify its economy and e ports. >> senegal's biggest source of income is the export of fish and peanuts. output from aging oil refineries has been poor because of lack of investment. >> reducing the price of petrol makes the government looks good. how much is due to the exploration of oil and gas is uncertain. >> despite the prospect of more oil and gas, he wonders if it's worth it. forty years of peanut farming has taught him that sometimes having just enough is plenty. al jazeera, senegal. >> the world go champion has had his first win against an artificial intelligence program. [ applause ] >> he was playing again

a record 5 trillion cubic meters of it straddled between the coasts of senegal and mauritania.ve also found vast quantities of oil near guinea's border. the exploration hasn't been complete bud what to do with these untapped natural resource is his already a source of heated debate in parliament. the senegal ease government has yet to negotiate ownership with its neighboring countries and others say it needs tomorrow prove the economy first. the it. >> translator: the explorer fashion of "knights of cups natural resource is his not a cause for conflict but chances are it will exacerbate the existing conflict. we need to continue to diverse the economy in exports. >> reporter: senegal's biggest source of income is the export of fish and peanuts. output from an aging oil refinery has been poor because of bad management and corruption the government plans to invest in it and promises new jobs in the sector. reducing the price of petrol at the pump certainly makes the government look good but how much of it is down to the discovery of oil and gas is uncertain. so despite the prospe

here at the airport, we watched dozens of foreigners from libya, mauritan mauritania, egypt insist theyrity workers. turkey let many like them cross into syria. and isis took root right on europe and nato's doorstep. it is in the nature of wars to spread chaos, and just across the border in iraq, another never again. the azeedies were brutalized. women used as sex slaves. children for soldiers, men murdered. it is unclear how many died. u.s. officials think it may be genocide. it took four years of desperation to spark the largest refugee crisis since world war ii. even the rise or fall of the soviet union did this. unable to see an end to the war or a future in the middle east, they left. to germany -- [ chants ] greece or anywhere in between or beyond. risking life, bringing out the worst and best of those welcomed. [ gunfire ] one small fact also exposes how the war has hamstrung our humanity. we don't know how many people have died in it. not since january, 2014, when the u.n. last counted 100,000. they've since been unable to verify enough information. even in this, the most filmed

the arc of instability stud wre we look at militancy and trends across an area stretching from mauritaniaand bangladesh and we have the middle east and north africa a couple of years ago and we are now coming up toward the close of our study on militancy in africa. i would also like to, before i start here, point out a few special guests. alexander deborgraph, thank you very much for making the introduction to greg, vanessa, judge webster. bill webster is the chairman of the senior steering committee and the former cia and fbi director. i'm very excited to welcome today to the tnt, transnational threats, program speaker series dr. greg trevorton, chair of the council. dr. trevorton became chamber of the nic, and the director of national intelligence, greg's rare combination of world-class analytic skills and broad, substantive expertise and deep understanding of the nic's unique role and mission makes him the right person for this position at exactly the right time. prior to his selection, he held several positions at rand including the global risk and security. director of the internatio