Refugees Flee Central African Republic, a Crisis the World Neglects
An unlikely alliance of rebels is laying siege to the capital, displacing about 200,000 people, after a disrupted election. Here is an explanation of a humanitarian crisis that gets scant attention.
United Nations peacekeepers patrolling outside the offices of the Central African Republic president, in Bangassou, this month.Credit...Alexis Huguet/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Published Feb. 12, 2021Updated Feb. 16, 2021
In the shadow of six surrounding neighbors burdened with their own problems sits the Central African Republic, a landlocked country that gets relatively little attention but that has been plagued by instability and conflict upending the lives of its citizens for many years.