Bangui

Muslims are asking to be evacuated” (We ‘failed’). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum reports that after the Muslims were evacuated “looters quickly emptied the area of valuable materials and destroyed the mosque” (United States Memorial Museum). This cast an eerie resemblance to the night of November 9, 1938, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, where along with robbery, vandalism of Jewish property, synagogues were burned. Josie Ensor wrote in the article, Ban Ki-moon Warns of Rwandan Genocide Repeat in Central African Republic, that “Forces from neighboring Chad, a predominantly Muslim country, have helped to evacuate tens of thousands of Muslims fleeing the violence” (Enosr), their abandoned homes have been overtaken by refugees. In Bangui, Central African Republic’s capital, segregation occurs. In the article, Hell is an Understatement, Graeme Wood describes the segregation he saw in…

magical underworld promised women the opportunity to defy patriarchal authority by ridding themselves of their husbands and marrying lovers of their own choosing” (91). Men feared that women could sabotage the patriarchal order. The image of witchcraft today has not changed gender. Women are still thought of as witches and are still being falsely accused of witchcraft. Women who lack family or community protection are vulnerable. They can be accused of witchcraft by family members or neighbors…

This land-locked country has an ongoing crisis of instability. According to BBC News (2015), It is an active war zone that has been unstable since its independence from France in 1960. The violence stems mostly from Muslim and Christian conflicts states The Guardian (2015). Many of the health professionals have fled and are not properly trained due to lack of infrastructure. Since September 2015 the city of Bangui had an uprising of violence that has led the MSF to increase its services. The MSF…