SPECIAL REPORT: This African nation may now be most dangerous place in the world for children
After descending into political chaos, the Central African Republic is now home to a humanitarian crisis of epic scale that has largely gone unnoticed. A sectarian civil war pitting Muslim rebels against Christian militias has ravaged large swaths of the country, displaced more than 1 million people and claimed the lives of tens of thousands.
Adding to its woes, this landlocked nation of 4.6 million people is now teetering on the brink of famine. An estimated 1.5 million children are at risk of starvation, aid groups say, giving ISIS a possible foothold. “Right now there are a lot of people who are benefitting more from war than they could gain from peace,” said David Brownstein, the U.S. chargé d’affairs in the Central African Republic.
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