Laura Jepson
Bio:
Laura Jepson has worked in the Central African Republic since May 2013 as the project reporting and communications officer for the International Medical Corps. She is based primarily in the capital, Bangui, but travels frequently to sites in the eastern Haute-Kotto prefecture, where IMC provides primary health care and nutrition activities to conflict-affected communities. Jepson has five years of fundraising and communications experience working for international nongovernmental organizations.
WMC Women Under Siege
In CAR, ‘If they saw a woman they wanted, they just took her’
Natacha Indzabingui is one of thousands of women hiding in the bush in the Central African Republic. The 32-year-old told me that when armed men attacked her village, “everyone tried to escape. Those who couldn’t were attacked. If they saw a woman they wanted, they just took her. If she had a child, it was just thrown to the side.” Thirty people were abducted that day, Indzabingui said, including 12 women and girls, some as young as 7.
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