Some 60,000 of them have sought shelter at M’Poko, the capital Bangui’s international airport. These extraordinary photographs were taken by Peter Biro of the International Rescue Committee ...

There is a French base nearby, and airports are often one of the few well-functioning services in even the poorest countries. The Bangui M’Poko airport was a natural refuge. The number of people who ...

Residents of the Boeing quarter, located adjacent to the capital’s M’poko airport, began fleeing their homes on Tuesday night after Seleka fighters starting firing in the neighbourhood.

The president of the Central African Republic announced last week he intends to close the camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in the capital's international airport. The government would ...

As you descend through a mysterious thick cloud of dust into Central African Republic’s capital Bangui’s M’Poko International Airport, displaced people living adjacent to the airport wave to ...

The most dramatic population movements in Bangui were between December 2013 and January 2014. Close to a year on, there are still 31 camps in the capital. The biggest is still at M'Poko, near the ...

The M'poko displacement camp near the international airport in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. The camp is largely controlled by anti-balaka militia and has become increasingly ...

BANGUI, July 6, 2016 — The first thing you see when you land at Bangui’s M’Poko International Airport is miles and miles of makeshift shelters covered in plastic tarp, dangerously lined up along the ...

Scores of foreigners trying to flee the Central African Republic capital of Bangui piled into the country’s only international airport on Thursday in the hope of securing a seat on the first ...

The threat of violence confronts visitors the moment they arrive at Bangui M'Poko International Airport. Soldiers, dressed in camouflage and armed with rifles, patrol the airstrip on foot and in ...

By Wednesday morning, Bangui residents told the Mail & Guardian that the sound of gunfire was becoming increasingly rare, and ­people had started venturing out to buy food and other necessities.