Melissa on the road

Journalist at RFI (ex-DW, BBC, CBC, F24...), writer (on art, music, street art...), I work in radio, podcasting, online, on films. As a writer, I'm a contributor to the New Arab, Art UK, Byline Times, the i paper... Born in Paris, I was also based in Prague, Miami, London, Nairobi (covering East Africa), Bangui, and in Bristol, UK. I also reported from Italy, Germany, Haiti, Tunisia, Liberia, Senegal, India, Mexico, Iraq, South Africa... This blog is to share my work and cultural discoveries.

04/03/2014

Bossangoa Muslim community: only a 1.000 left

In Bossangoa, 5.000 Muslims used to live peacefully before the crisis worsend in December 2013.

All have had to flee and got displaced. Now only 1.000 remain and they wish to leave for the extreme north of the Central African Republic, says Imam Ismail Nafi and his deputy Mahamat Mango.

According to the religious authority, WFP is the only agency helping them, and their are in need of mostly everything.

Some still managed to raise goats and to sell a few products, as they used to on the now destroyed market, to survive.

Here are some insight into their daily life at the Liberte school:

Melissa Chemam ‏@melissachemam

#CAR #RCA Muslim family in #Bossangoa where @WFP supplies are the only help 5000 fleeing ppl received, many now left: pic.twitter.com/C9FabObQTA
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Melissa Chemam ‏@melissachemam 25m

#CAR #RCA I also visited the Muslim area of #Bossangoa where @WFP supplies are the only help 1.000 ppl left received pic.twitter.com/XPxxCwV5Oe

The mosque and the market have been completely destroyed two months ago:

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