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Congo's bread basket struggles to recover from conflict

 

Outside Mindouli's war-battered railway station, a relic of French colonial times, a few hawkers set up stalls in the hope of snaring a little cash [Photo, AFP]

"The trains are running again. We have peace," says Didier, the station master at Mindouli, in the Republic of Congo's southern region of Pool.

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