A woman and a child stand in a makeshift shelter in the Keube slum in Nouakchott
A woman and a child stand in a makeshift shelter in the Keube slum in Nouakchott March 13, 2007. The inhabitants of Nouakchott's Keube slum -- kilometres of flimsy cardboard, wood and tin shacks spread over refuse-strewn sand -- are almost all black and they say they have suffered discrimination, including slavery, for centuries. The light-skinned Moorish elite, including the military junta which will hand over power to a civilian president at the end of the month, deny there is race discrimination. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (MAURITANIA)