If you flee, you will be without your family, but if you stay, your family will be without you. Stresses on Muslim communities such as major food crises, and the constant fear of Anti-Balaka are ripping apart the social and cultural fabric of these once peaceful Central African Republic communities. Beloved family members are raped, beaten and killed as decades old family homes are torn apart and engulfed in the ghastly flames of war. The culture that has grown from memories, hardships and triumphs experienced in these towns, is wiped away in an instant. The dark wound of loss and abandonment is forever cast upon the families that once inhabited villages like Boyali and Bossembele.
The story of
Boyali and Bossembele
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