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The ruins of a MONUSCO military base, which was stormed by protesters in November.

A main road running from the hills surrounding Beni, the site of numerous recent massacres.

19-year-old Amida Maha lost her mother and 10-month-old brother during a massacre in their village outside Beni city in November.

Adama Barrow came to power in a wave of popular support following the downfall of the fall of longtime dictator Yahya Jammeh in January 2017. His popularity has since waned.

Dembo Sanneh: “Germany was my destiny. It was like I went to paradise, then I came back to the same situation and I had to start all over again.”

Gambian migrants in Europe: Those that return face many challenges in reintegrating.

Displaced families fled a village called Miangalewa after an insurgent attack late last month. (Philip Kleinfeld / THN)

Residents are struggling to cope in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth, which pulled down power lines and sent trees crashing into people’s homes. (Philip Kleinfeld / TNH)

Some 35,000 houses were destroyed or damaged by Cyclone Kenneth, which hit Cabo Delgado in April. (Philip Kleinfeld / TNH)

Sixty-four displaced people from 19 different families are living in António Alfredo’s single-storey house in Macomia. Most sleep outside, in the local farmer’s courtyard with no mosquito nets and little shelter from the elements. The families fled a vill

A displaced family of 17 are crammed together in three mud huts held up by bamboo sticks in Macomia. They arrived in October after insurgents set fire to parts of their village, called Nambija. They now survive on small portions of rice and cassava donate

A few months after Cyclone Kenneth battered Atija Malique’s house in the village of Namaneco, insurgents came and burnt down the parts still standing. Her family of seven escaped on wooden boats, eventually making their way to Macomia, where they now live

Ana Lassifa (pictured on the right) said she lost four members of her family over a two week period in August: two killed while farming in their fields, the others shot dead when insurgents attacked Lassifa’s village, called Ilala. Her family of 10 are no

64 displaced people from 19 families are packed into a single-story house and courtyard in Macomia town.

64 displaced people from 19 families are packed into a single-story house and courtyard in Macomia town

Sponge mattresses and sacks of maize are among the items salvaged by displaced families who fled their village in Cabo Delgado last month.

64 displaced people from 19 families are packed into a single-story house and courtyard in Macomia town.

Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province in red.

Displaced families fled a village called Miangalewa after an insurgent attack late last month

A man walks among a locust swarm in Kenya. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday that the desert locust swarms, that already reached Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, could spill over into more countries in East Africa des