[Slideshow] CAR: The Consequences of Widespread Violence

Since early December 2013, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical care to more than 1,000 patients wounded by violence in and around Bangui airport, where approximately 100,000 displaced people have taken refuge from a wave of fighting that has spread across the country. Carrying out medical activities at the camp is a big challenge due to heavy fighting that regularly takes place close to where MSF is working. next CAR 2014 © William Daniels MSF medical staff treat a man in Mpoko airport camp who was hit by an arrow. The fighters often use homemade weapons like spiked clubs, axes, and machetes. Due to lack of protection, the displaced people at the airport camp are too scared to return home, fearful of being attacked. # prev | next CAR 2014 © William Daniels Many people in Bangui have witnessed extreme violence, lost family and friends, and are traumatized as a result of the abuses committed by the two main armed groups, the ex-Seleka and the opposing anti-Balaka.  # prev | next CAR 2014 © William Daniels MSF staff at the Mpoko airport camp take cover on the ground as they hear shooting outside. Stray bullets from fighting in surrounding neighborhoods sometimes enter the hospital. Several times MSF has had to operate with a reduced team at the airport due to heavy fighting taking place close to the clinic. # prev ...
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