"First it was the airport at Bangui where we found some of the 35,000 who aid groups say are living (very) rough there among the hangars and planes.
A couple of days later we were in the Bangui monastery in the mud and human excrement – 15,000 at least there.
Today UNESCO said that there were 20,000 at the Don Bosco Catholic educational institute.
As we walked around with one of their staff he said casually there are at least 20 such sites around this town where Christians stay because they are terrified of the Muslim Seleka militia still going house to house by night looking for people to kill. Don Bosco is by far the best organised of these places.
They have speakers rigged up by locals so children can skip around and dance. So they can forget.
There’s a football pitch where the inevitable Arsenal-shirted lads are showing their fluid step-over skills in 35c of equatorial humidity (I could barely breathe) and what is it about the preponderance of Arsenal tops here anyway? "
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