In pictures: Escaping death in Central African Republic


'One life'

Victor feels returning to his old village is out of the question: "In this world you are only given one life to lose; we escaped death once and we don't want to risk it again.

"My main concerns now are the everyday struggle to find food, replacing all the things we lost and educating my children."

The insecurity has caused schools and hospitals across the north to close; and so when parents find a school for their children to go to they tend to settle nearby.

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