In December 2013, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as violence spread in the Central African Republic, where militants brutally killed civilians, looted homes and burned villages. To date, more than 792,584 refugees from the Central African Republic still live in Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.
According to the United Nations, more than half of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, the number of displaced and refugees is estimated at 1.4 million, and the Republic remains one of the most dangerous countries in terms of life expectancy, maternal mortality and malnutrition, and lack of access to health care..
