VIDEO: Assia’s story of fleeing the Central African Republic (CAR) 

VIDEO: Assia’s story of fleeing the Central African Republic (CAR)

Meet Assia, 10, one of 423,000 people who has fled Central African Republic to escape escalating violence.

Now living at a returnee site in Chad with her grandmother, what Assia misses most about her old life is her sister:

“My sister lives in another town and it has been a long time since I have seen her. If the war stops I will go back to visit, but I will not stay there…I am afraid that if I am there, another war will start and I will be stuck there.”

This is her story:

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