Men are seen at a welding workshop in the village of Kafolo on September 26, 2024 four years after a Jihadist attack in northern Ivory Coast. For months after presumed jihadists attacked it in 2020, Kafolo in northern Ivory Coast resembled a ghost town. Four years later, it is flourishing again, thanks in part to a double-pronged government plan -- boosting security on the one hand, tackling poverty and youth unemployment on the other. Fourteen soldiers were killed in the first assault in June 2020, two others in March the year after. After that, Kafolo's fields were deserted, its shops shuttered. Its inhabitants hid at home, fearful of more militant attacks. Now Kafolo is buzzing with life again. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)