Albert Masias photography

Around 30.000 refugees from Central African Republic have arrived since the beginning of January 2014 to the Cameroonian border tow of Garoua Boulaï. Local humanitarian organizations register and distribute food and clothes to people arriving to town, especially to those who are not registered in the UNHCR camp. The French military was first deployed in CAR in December 2013 in an attempt to stop the country's slide into chaos. Both ex-Seleka rebels and Anti-Balaka militias are accused of atrocities against civilians, including killing, rape, mutilations and looting. About a quarter of the population of 4.6 millions have fled their homes, many of them internally displaced while others have fled to neighboring countries, particularly Cameroon, most of them Muslim population persecuted by the Anti-Balaka militias.