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Black Lives Matter skirts North Africa despite everyday racism

In this file photo from June 6, youths at an anti-racism solidarity rally in Tunisia re-enact the event leading to the death of George Floyd. [AFP]

The global wave of anti-racism protests sparked by the US police killing of George Floyd has barely touched North Africa, despite everyday discrimination in a region with a long slave-trading history.

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