By Aurélien Dombé
BANGUI, Central African Republic — On the fringes of Bangui, where nights once descended into unbroken darkness, sunlight is now captured and stored. Along the rooftops of modest cinderblock homes, solar...
By Fadila Ngatakou
BIMBO, Central African Republic — In the village of Gbaya-Dombia, the early light filters through acacia branches, casting long shadows over a patchwork of fields. The rhythmic swish of machetes cutting...
KAGA-BANDORO, Central African Republic — The morning air in this northern market town carried a deceptive stillness. Beneath tin awnings, traders arranged cassava roots and bruised tomatoes in neat piles. A few stalls away, children, bare-footed and quick with laughter, chased a sagging soccer ball through a swirl of red dust.
The calm broke with the first crack of gunfire. It lasted less than ten minutes. When the sound faded, the fighters had already melted into the bush, leaving jittery soldiers and another day’s losses for the community to absorb.
It is a familiar rhythm here: a war without front lines, where ceasefires dissolve in the heat of midday and no...
By Fadila Ngatakou
BIMBO, Central African Republic — In the village of Gbaya-Dombia, the early light filters through acacia branches, casting long shadows over a...
DZANGA-SANGHA, Central African Republic — At dawn, a pale mist drapes the Dzanga Bai clearing. Forest elephants emerge from the shadows, their vast frames moving with slow, deliberate grace across sodden grass. Above, hornbills flash between branches while mangabeys chatter in the canopy. In the tree line, a small group of visitors — flanked by BaAka trackers — watch in silence, their cameras momentarily...
By Aurélien Dombé
BANGUI, Central African Republic — On the fringes of Bangui, where nights once descended into unbroken darkness, sunlight is now captured and stored. Along the rooftops of modest cinderblock homes, solar...
By Brigitte M’Bali-Nzapa
BANGUI, Central African Republic — In a shaded courtyard off a quiet Bangui avenue, the scent of slow-simmering gozo — fermented cassava — coils through the air, intertwining with the nutty...
DZANGA-SANGHA, Central African Republic — At dawn, a pale mist drapes the Dzanga Bai clearing. Forest elephants emerge from...
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