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A feasibility study carried out in 2011, indicated that 75% of the people in the area live on less than one euro per day. The staple food is plantain which grows in abundance in the area but is under threat of bacterial wilt. Cash crops are on the increase, like coffee, groundnuts and cabbage. There was a high in migration of people from the south, near the Rwanda Rwandan border, bringing in different ethnic groups. Islamic and Christian faiths are followed in the region.