This Time, the UN Can’t Let Africa Fail | Human Rights Watch

This Time, the UN Can’t Let Africa Fail | Human Rights Watch

 Roughly 350,000 people, about half of Bangui’s population, have been displaced by sectarian fighting between the largely Muslim Seleka coalition, which took power in a March 2013 coup, and the anti-balaka (“anti-machete”) militias of the country’s majority Christians, backed by soldiers of the former government. Attacks have become more gruesome, with civilians often targeted.

Displaced refugees receive humanitarian aid at the airport outside the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, on January 7, 2014 © 2014 Reuters