Yet the homecoming - prompted by what villagers here call "the trouble with Nigeria" - was not entirely a cause for celebration.

A villager saw us and called out, "Girl-soldiers this time."

The distressed villagers called in a local shaman, or native healer, who had the man take a compound of pressed plants.

The Team Rwanda cyclists are a familiar presence, and villagers often call to them by name.

The hunt began, and the villagers called the idol they found Malayappa, which means "king of the hills".

He was one of them, a thespian, a player, a re-enactor, whatever the villagers called themselves!

In his absence, the villagers, close to panic, call a meeting.

According to Owen, local villagers called it a "dolphin", but that was likely only because of the superficial similarity.

The villagers called it the "place with nothing, the poorest in the world".

The villagers called the authorities by phone from the crash site and told, "they found five victims dead, two of them inside the helicopter's wreckage.