republic the african nation has been in the midst of turmoil since twenty thirteen when president francois boise's a question was overthrown by mostly muslim so lekker rebels according to unicef children have been killed raped abducted and recruited by armed groups in a recent increase in violence in ca our. danniella do is you know steps chief of communications for central african republic she spoke to us earlier from dakar in senegal and explained the magnitude of this problem says i would say in the everyday lives of children in the central african republic of many children. eventually you know that the situation in the central african republic has been there's there's been a really bad increase in violence in the past six months it's actually we now have one in two children in the country with considering running remark and probably one in four or five now is illiterate displaced internally. or directly outside of the country so we usually say this international public is one of the worst countries and that is. now to some of the other stories making news around the world more than one hundred