Muslim refugees fill the back of a semi-trailer bound for Cameroon as they flee the violence in the Central African Republic. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Muslim refugees from the Central African Republic crowd a truck headed for safety in Cameroon. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Zahra Ali, 70, whose son was killed in the violence, sits in the courtyard of the Central Mosque in Bangui, where many Muslims in the Central African Republic have taken refuge. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Alima Ambayakwe, a 20-year-old Muslim, reacts coolly to an overture from Maurice Konomo, a self-styled general of the “anti-balaka” militia forces. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
A Burundian member of the MISCA peacekeeping force retrieves a rifle abandoned by “anti-balaka” militia members who had tried to slaughter a herd of cattle belonging to Muslims. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
A boy climbs on a burned-out truck, one of several destroyed vehicles along a highway in the Central African Republic that has been the scene of fighting in recent months. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
A convoy carrying Muslims displaced by the violence in the Central African Republic arrive in the town of Bossemptele on the road to Cameroon. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
The body of a Muslim man hacked to death by “anti-balaka” militia members lies in a hospital morgue in Bangui. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
