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Grim outlook for Central African Republic's children

A young boy makes his way to a camp in Nairobi for people displaced by the violence that followed hotly contested elections in December 2007 Anthony Morland/IRIN
    NAIROBI

    Untreated trauma from seeing the killing of relatives, kidnapping by bandits or forced recruitment into armed groups, hunger and disease: these are among the problems experienced by thousands of  internally displaced children in the Central African Republic, according to a new report.



    “It will take a concerted effort on the part of both the government and the international community to redress this state of neglect,” urged the report, itself titled State of Neglect – Displaced Children in the Central African Republic, published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.






    STATE OF NEGLECT: Displaced Children in the Central African Republic



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