Rising CAR unrest threatens to reignite war

Rising violence in the Central African Republic is threatening to plunge the country back into war. Fighting has intensified between ethnic groups and armed gangs vying for territory. Aid workers say they are unable to help thousands of people who have been displaced by the conflict.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports.

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The Central African Republic, or Centrafrique, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and had an estimated population of around 4.7 million as of 2018.

As of 2020, the CAR is the scene of a civil war, ongoing since 2012.

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