Narké Eduish, center, a 30-year-old mother of six children, most of them malnourished, heads towards her house in Berberati. She said her husband left her and their children eight months ago, while she was still pregnant with her last son, to go to a diamond mine in Nakombo forest, 60 km from Berberati. Although she had a small piece of property, it was not enough to feed seven people in the house, and she and the children suffered from starvation. Abandonment and infidelity is common among miners in CAR, and the wives are often left behind without resources.
