Mauritanian refugee and fisherman Hamidou N'Diaye walks through a camp in N'dioum, northern Senegal July 24, 2007. Hundreds of black Mauritanians were killed and ten of thousands lost everything in the 1989 ethnic purges by the Arab-dominated regime of former dictator Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, but now a democratically-elected government in Mauritania has invited the refugees to return and has promised them equal rights. Picture taken on July 24, 2007. Reuters Pictures 30 months ago

Mauritanian refugee and fisherman Hamidou N'Diaye walks through a camp in N'dioum, northern Senegal July 24, 2007. Hundreds of black Mauritanians were killed and ten of thousands lost everything in the 1989 ethnic purges by the Arab-dominated regime of former dictator Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, but now a democratically-elected government in Mauritania has invited the refugees to return and has promised them equal rights. Picture taken on July 24, 2007.