This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to journalist Jack Losh

about the ongoing brutal conflict in the Central African Republic and the horrific war crimes that are seemingly

going unchecked in the region right now. Many different countries are involved

yet still there's very little focus on the country in the last year since we did an episode on

the C. A. R. There's been a hell of a lot more violence. Things have gotten a

lot worse. I have to excuse me I've got COVID so I sound like this today.

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slash Popular a lot of fighting in the C. A.R. Central African Republic over the last year.

There's been very little coverage as is usual for such a region in Africa in general

as well. I think there's just not enough reporting on the

conflicts there but it's been a significant rise right in the conflict

in a CIR recently maybe tell us what's going on why is that happening right

now yeah it's it's been an extraordinary year.

I think I spoke to you about this time last year.

And already by that point,

some pretty extraordinary events had taken place, but we didn't really know what it was

setting in store for the year ahead. At times, it's been very fast moving lightning developments every day.

At the moments it's kind of been stagnant levels where nobody was really sure what was going on.

And then there's just been this overall fog of war

that is settled on the country.

And one of the reasons behind that is a terrible lack of access for journalists, the human rights investigators, for UN peacekeepers across the country due to the Russian presence in the country

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