Rwanda: Cabo Delgado – Over 130,000 People Returned Home as Security Improves

As the plane carrying journalists to the Rwanda security forces’ area of responsibility in Cabo Delgado Province approached the Afungi Airstrip on Monday, September 26, a line of seven small fishing vessels lingered, far below, closer to the shore.

That was not the only vivid sign of how life in the Afungi Peninsula, in Palma district, has changed, for the better, in the past year. Fishing activities in the area had come to a halt due to the fear spread by the Islamic State-linked terrorist…