Angola: Refugees face difficult route home across vast, devastated land

When a huge country is littered with mines and has seen its roads disappear during decades of war, getting refugees back to their homes is not an easy task. The 236 Angolans are the last of the 2,500 who returned in August and September in an organised manner from settlements in Kasangulu, in the western part of the DRC. They come from 15 of the 18 Angolan provinces – excluding only Zaire, Cabinda and Luanda provinces – and are headed to the south, east and west of country that is 1,246,700 square km.