Posted on 25 July, 2014

Photo by Laurence Hoenig/MSF

A refugee girl waits to have her bandages changed in a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tent in Garoua-Boulaï District Hospital in Cameroon. Her family fled the violence in their village on a truck transporting wood. Several were wounded when the truck got into an accident. The refugees were referred to the Cameroon hospital from the MSF hospital in Bouar, Central African Republic (CAR), when the situation became too unstable in the area. Nearly 85 percent of those who died in CAR before any attempt to flee were men (1,863). However, the violence did not spare women, children, or the elderly. There were 209 children under 15 and 227 people over the age of 60 who died because of violence. Survey data and the statements collected by MSF teams in CAR, Chad (where refugees have also sought safety), and Cameroon highlight the breadth of the violence that the populations have experienced – both inside CAR and as they fled the country. Read more: http://bit.ly/1std1C2

Photo by Yann Libessart/MSF

Patients await consultation at a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in M'Poko camp near Bangui airport in the capital of Central African Republic (CAR). Today, nearly the entire Muslim population in the western half of CAR has left in just a few months. Several enclaves under the protection of armed international forces in Bangui, Carnot, Boda, and Berberati still shelter a few thousand Muslims, but their living conditions are precarious and they have few prospects. Now confined in ghettos, this portion of the Central African population still faces daily threats. Most people believe it is too dangerous to go to the hospital or move around town. While the hospital remains functional, there is little access to it, and MSF has referred 14 emergency cases by airplane and ambulance to hospitals in Bangui and Bria. Read more: http://bit.ly/1std1C2