Car stuck in the muddy road. Between Kibua and Kashebere. Difficult access.

The village of Limangi lies 1hr 30 brisk walk uphill from the small town of Kibua, and the only way to get there is currently on foot.  There is no mobile phone reception - you would have to trek 1 hour further uphill or head back down to Kibua to be able to make a phone call.  The area has been affected by conflict for much of the last 18 years - occupied by the FDLR and now, since their departure, caught up in fighting between rival militia groups. Although people don't talk much about it, it is rumoured that rape by militia groups has been widespread.  People are often displaced from their homes in a recurring cycle as they try to flee fighting - most are able to return after a short time, but the cycle is then often repeated.  Limangi is the first significant village after Kibua along the route towards Pinga, so villagers from even more remote communities beyond Limangi sometimes take refuge there when they have to flee the fighting.  At other times vilagers from Limangi themselves have to flee towards the relative safety of the road (which passes through Kibua).  Limangi is a community of subsistence farmers.  Rice, manioc, bananas and peanuts are grown, but everything else has to be obtained by walking to Kibua.  If people are lucky they can produce small quantities of palm oil to sell at the market in Kibua to earn a very small amount of cash.