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Razed villages and empty fields await Congo-Brazzaville’s displaced

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“Life has to be rebuilt”

Philip Kleinfeld
Freelance journalist and IRIN contributor

The jungle has edged into fields left untilled. It has crept onto thatched-roof houses turned to ruins; and it has stretched over empty highways once used to transport bananas, beans, cassava from a region long-known as Congo-Brazzaville’s breadbasket.

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