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For more than a week, the village of Farabougou in the Ségou region has been cut off from the world surrounded by armed men banning entry. Mediation attempts have been made with local notables, but the inhabitants still remain the monastery at home. "The army has already reached a village about ten kilometers from our village.…

Several thousand families have been expropriated to make way for a hydropower dam about sixty kilometers from Kolwezi in southern Congo. Houses were leveled and three villages deleted from the map. Residents complain that they have not been compensated properly, which the Lualaba provincial government rejects. as reported from…