How can the World Bank improve its support to people internally displaced by conflict?
Children and tents along the runway and livestock running across it: that was what passengers first saw when flying into Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, during the 2013-2017 period. At its peak, as many as 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) were living in scrapped planes and squalid conditions in Mpoko International Airport, where they had sought refuge from fighting. They couldnt go home to their old neighborhoods where they would have fallen preys to armed groups. They couldnt move elsewhere without losing access to water, electricity, and aid. They were stuck. They had to live with no prospects, for years, in scrapped planes.