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The extraordinary story of Mende Nazer, a young woman who was stolen from her African village in a brutal raid and sold into modern day child slavery only to finally escape her captors in London many years later. Mende comes from the remote Nuba tribe in Sudan, and she tells the story of how slave traders came and savagely attacked her village. That was in 1994 and Mende was just 12 years old. Mende - and dozens of other children like her – was captured and thrown onto a raiders horse and taken away from her happy childhood home forever. She was to be sold as a domestic slave to an Arab family in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum. Sadly, Mende’s story is all too familiar in Sudan, where there are tens of thousands of girls and boys living in modern day chattel slavery. What makes Mende’s story unique is that, after seven years slavery in Khartoum, she was sent to London to be the domestic slave of a senior Sudanese diplomat. On September 11th 2000, Mende Nazer managed to escape from the London house that had become her slave prison.