(UN News) – Amid continued fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are setting up temporary classrooms for more than 20,000 children in the capital, Bangui, and in the north-west of the country, with more on the way. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake has said that children in the CAR are in desperate need of protection and support. “They are under assault and being killed in brutal, senseless communal violence, and there is an almost total absence of protection for children,” Mr. Lake told a meeting of the agency’s Board today. “For the sake of the children, for the sake of the whole country, we all must urgently scale up our work there.”
