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DONGO-BRAZZAVILLE, 11 May 2010 (IRIN) - Security is improving in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Equateur province, where an insurgency rooted in aresource conflict pushed some 200,000 people in the marginalized region to flee their homes last year. But it will require more than an end to the violence for the trickle of returnees to turn into a torrent. 

“It’s calm now. We have the situation under control,” Ndangobo Ngoy, a lieutenant-colonel in the DRC army, told IRIN in Dongo, an Equateur town that was attacked in October 2009, prompting almost its entire population, some 100,000 people, to take flight, mostly across the Ubangi river into the Republic of Congo (RoC).