BANGUI, Central African Republic — The first notes come quietly: a low thump of the drum, a ripple of balafon keys. In the Boy-Rabe district, dusk settles over ochre earth, and a walled...
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...
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 region where reading has often been more aspiration than habit.
In much of rural Central African Republic, decades of political instability and chronic underinvestment have hollowed out public infrastructure. Here, 200 miles from Bangui, electricity falters, the internet is scarce, and printed materials are rare. Yet,...
DZANGA-SANGHA, Central African Republic — At dawn, a pale mist drapes the Dzanga Bai clearing. Forest elephants emerge from the shadows, their vast frames...
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 through weeds breaks the morning stillness. Around the edges of the clearing, a cooperative of women and young men works side by side, their hands roughened by years of labor, their...
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 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...
BERBÉRATI, Central African Republic — The midday heat settles heavily over the ravine, thick with the smell of damp...
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