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...
BERBÉRATI, Central African Republic — The midday heat settles heavily over the ravine, thick with the smell of damp earth. Barefoot men in tattered shirts lower battered plastic buckets into shafts no wider...
By Aurélien Dombé
BANGUI, Central African Republic — On the fringes of Bangui, where nights once descended into unbroken darkness, sunlight is now captured and...
BANGUI, Central African Republic — In the main ward of Bangui’s Hôpital Communautaire, the air is heavy and warm. A single ceiling fan turns lazily, its blades pushing stale air over a row of narrow metal beds. The light flickers, as it does most days. On one of the beds, a girl of six lies motionless beneath a thin sheet. She is being treated for severe malaria. The nurse at her side has no gloves, no running water, and no working thermometer.
Such scenes unfold daily across the Central African Republic (CAR), where the health system has been worn thin by decades of conflict and neglect.
Once ranked among the lowest...
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...
KAGA-BANDORO, Central African Republic — The morning air in this northern market town carried a deceptive stillness. Beneath tin awnings, traders arranged cassava roots...
KEMBE, Central African Republic — At first light, a thin red haze rises over the savanna as a dented Toyota Land Cruiser navigates the ruts of a dirt track. Wooden crates fill the back, their contents shifting with each jolt. Inside are books — hundreds of them — bound for a school with no shelves, in a village without a single bookstore, in a...
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...
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...
BANGUI, Central African Republic — The first notes come quietly: a low thump of the drum, a ripple of...
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