Photos: Crisis in Central African Republic

A young neighborhood resident carries makeshift weapons, as he returns from a camp for the displaced at Mpoko Airport to fetch household goods from the Garaba neighborhood, in Bangui, Jan. 1, 2014.Rebecca Blackwell—AP

Youths walk towards burning houses in Bossangoa, north of Bangui, Jan. 2, 2014.Andreea Campeanu—Reuters

People displaced by violence attempt to create a semblance of daily life, in a sprawling camp at Mpoko Airport, in Bangui, Jan. 2, 2014.

People displaced by violence attempt to create a semblance of daily life in a sprawling camp at M'Poko International Airport in Bangui on Jan. 2, 2014.Rebecca Blackwell—AP

Chadian civilians climb on a military chadian truck to go back to Chad on Jan. 15, 2014, in the PK12 district of Bangui.Eric Feferberg—AFP/Getty Images

Mothers wait to have their children examined at a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic in a camp for internally displaced persons at the airport of the capital Bangui, Jan. 18, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

Children play next to makeshift shelters in the camp for displaced persons near the Mpoko airport in Bangui, on Jan. 21, 2014, a day after the election of Catherine Samba-Panza as the new President of the Central African Republic.Issouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty Images

A man stands by a fence at the edge of a camp for internally displaced persons at the airport of the capital Bangui, Jan. 21, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

Anti-Balaka Christian youth loot the Muslim market in the PK13 district of Bangui, Jan. 22, 2014.Jerome Delay—AP

Rwandan African Union peacekeepers remove the lucky charms from a suspected Anti-Balaka Christian man who was found with a rifle and a grenade following looting in the Muslim market of the PK13 district of Bangui, Jan. 22, 2014.Jerome Delay—AP

A Muslim child sits inside the St. Pierre church where she and hundreds of other Muslims are seeking refuge in Boali, some 50 miles north-west of Bangui, Jan. 23, 2014.Jerome Delay—AP

The body of a man who was killed by a mob that believed him to be a Seleka Muslim militia member lies on the ground near the PK11 checkpoint as French soldiers walk by in Bangui, Jan. 24, 2014.Jerome Delay—AP

A terrified woman walks down from the bush in the hills 10 miles outside Bangui, Jan. 24, 2014, as Rwandan troops tell her to calm down during a weapons search operation.Jerome Delay—AP

Men carry a boy, who died shortly after from a gunshot wound during a violent confrontation between Muslims and Christians, in Miskine district in the capital Bangui, Jan. 24, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

A boy carries a cross at the beginning of Sunday mass in a church in Wango, a district of the capital Bangui, Jan. 26, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

Fake wooden guns hang in Jean Bedel Bocassa's Berengo palace near Pissa, some 45 miless outh west of Bangui, Jan. 26, 2014.Jerome Delay—AP

African Union peacekeeping soldier walks past burnt bodies of two Muslim men killed by a crowd in a street of the capital Bangui, Jan. 26, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

A mother holds her child while attempting to take cover as repeated gun shots are heard close to Miskine district during continuing sectarian violence in the capital Bangui, Jan. 28, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

Christian refugees living in makeshift shelters near the airport in Bangui, Jan. 28, 2014, as they try to escape from the deepening divisions between the country's Muslim minority and Christian majority.Jerome Delay—AP

The dead body of a man killed during one of the latest incidents of sectarian violence is pictured on the ground in the district of Combattant near the airport of the capital Bangui, Jan. 29, 2014.Siegfried Modola—Reuters

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