Central African Republic (CAR)

Two Million Children in West and Central Africa Robbed of an Education Due to Conflict

By IPS Correspondent
Fourteen-year-old Fanta lives in a tent in a settlement in Zamaï, a village in the Far North Region of Cameroon with her mother and two brothers. They came here more than a year ago after her father and elder brother were murdered and her elder sister abducted by the extremist group Boko Haram.

The Hidden Economic Costs of Displacement

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
While the impacts of displacement on wellbeing are well-known, one group has pointed to the equally burdensome economic costs for those displaced as well as host communities.

Male Survivors of Sexual Violence Suffer in Silence Due to Stigma

By Zack Baddorf
In the Central African Republic, 45-year-old “Theodore” was captured by an armed group in February 2017 during an attack on his village of Mingala in the country’s southeast. He was taken with 21 other men to a nearby ad hoc rebel military base and locked up in a house-turned-prison guarded by six armed men.
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