Fleeing from violence: the life of a family in western CAR
Posted in Bouar, Central African Republic, displacement, humanitarian crisis, internal displacement, pheul on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
It is a hot afternoon in Bouar – the sun is blazing down over the houses on the hill slopes that make up CAR’s third largest town. We are on a United Nations inter-agency mission in western CAR, near the border with Cameroon and right on the trading route which connects the landlocked capital Bangui with the Douala port in the neighbouring country. The objective is to assess the humanitarian situation in what was once one of the wealthier areas in CAR: indeed, a healthy cotton industry and a steady stream of visitors made it one of the country’s main economic hubs. Continue Reading »
