The lucky ones li e in this ormer rebel stronghold secured by a hand ul o rench and go ernment orces. The unlucky li e in the lawless countryside, their illages abandoned, their li es at the mercy o bandits, rebels and renegade soldiers.Central A rican Republic has struggled or more than a year to contain a homegrown low-intensity rebellion in the northwest. Now, a new insurgency in the northeast near Sudan's Dar ur region has compounded this ragile nation's troubles and displaced tens o thousands o people.
"The security situation was always deplorable, but it's gotten worse with Dar ur," regional Go . ranck rancis Gazi said in Birao, the small sun-blasted capital o akaga, a region held or a month by rebels until late 2006. "The con lict in Sudan has consequences or us. There is a cause and e ect."
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