In Djondji, in Bignona district, three-quarters of those who had taken refuge in Gambia during the conflict are now back and rebuilding work is in full swing. Local villagers have made no fewer than 5,000 bricks – especially for the maternity hospital. Antoine Grégoire Sagna, who is himself a Diola and an agricultural engineer employed by the ICRC in Ziguinchor, points out that the main ethnic group in Casamance, the Diolas, “really stick together and don’t have a lot of confidence in things they haven’t done themselves”.