UNICEF sounds alarm about CAR

bangui - About one and a half million children in the civil war-torn Central African Republic (CAR) are dependent on emergency aid. At least 43,000 of them will suffer from life-threatening hunger in 2019. Furthermore, almost every child in the poverty-stricken country needs protection against warring groups. The UN children's rights organization Unicef ​​announced this on Friday.

The CAR has been in chaos since Islamist rebels, the Seleka, deposed the president in 2013. Christian militias, the anti-balaka, went on to battle with the Seleka. Meanwhile, a dozen rebel groups are fighting with each other and the army for control of ferry routes and gold and uranium mines. According to the UN, thousands of people were killed in the violence and one fifth of the 4.5 million inhabitants of the country are on the run.