Congo: 150 people return home to Pool region

Displaced residents of the troubled Pool region in the Republic of Congo are gradually returning home under a government-facilitated programme that saw 150 people make it back to their village of Fiya last week. They had fled the Pool in 2002 when the civil war erupted in the area between government troops and the so-called Ninja rebel forces loyal to the Rev Frederic Bitsangou, alias Pasteur Ntoumi.