
CAR: Forced to flee home —
Muslims leave the PK12 neighborhood of Bangui on April 27. "Since December, nearly one million people in CAR have fled their homes amid brutal attacks and reprisals by warring factions -- chiefly the Seleka and anti-Balaka militias," writes Tammi Sharpe, UNHCR's deputy representative in the country.

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"More than half the country's 4.6 million people are now in need of humanitarian help," she says. "But few are in graver danger than the people trapped in numerous neighborhoods like PK12."

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Sharpe: "The humanitarian community is aware of 15 places where entire communities are currently at risk, though their numbers and locations are in continuous flux."

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"The humanitarian community looks at each situation separately, and for months we have been fervently trying to identify the best way to protect these individuals' fundamental rights to physical security and to provide the means for their basic survival," she writes.


