Senegal children face modern-day slavery

Like thousands of child beggars in Senegal, Abdou Kane, four, is always barefoot and carrying a bowl and clothes that he wears for weeks - even months - without washing them. Known as talibés - an Arabic word for pupil - an estimated 50,000 street children, as young as three-years old are sent up to hundreds of kilometres away from home to big cities, including Senegal's capital, Dakar, by their parents to gain religious instruction at "daaras" - but they end up begging on the streets. Children spend years at the classrooms or "daaras" where "oustaz" or a "marabout" spirtual guide traditionally teach the children to read the...