Refugee survey suggests higher death toll in Central African Republic


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Jul 2014

People, fleeing deteriorating humanitarian conditions and inter-religious violence in Central African Republic, queue at a food line for lunch rations at a transit camp at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja January 5, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fighting in Central African Republic may have claimed more lives than previously thought because many Muslim victims were never taken to state hospitals and families buried their dead at home because of security fears, according to aid workers.

Violence spiralled in the former French colony after the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the government of President Francois Bozize in March 2013 and Seleka leader Michel Djotodia declared himself president of the majority Christian country.

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