Jean Gerembo, 36, a refugee from Central African Republic (CAR), with his fishing nets in the Batanga transit centre. On Wednesday the 27th of March, 2013 Seleka forces entered his village, murdered his mother and stole her life savings. Jean had to hide through the night in a room next to the slain body of his mother. Early the next morning he found eight young people who were, as he said, “brave enough to help me to bury my mother." After the burial, Jean found his family, gathered a few essentials and fled across the Oubangi River in his small fishing boat. The most important thing that Jean was able to bring with him from CAR is the fishing net that he holds in this photograph. He says that the net allows him to live, and to earn. "Some of the fish I sell, some we eat. I use the money to buy clothes and to pay the local people for the plantains, cassava and peanuts we get from their land." Traumatised by the death of his mother, Jean lives in fear of a return to CAR. Several weeks before this photograph was taken, he was spotted by Seleka troops while fishing. They pointed their guns at him and demanded that he come ashore, at which point they beat him severely and took his catch. "I pray to God to help me," he says. "Who knows when we will be able to go back? Only God knows. I have to accept I must live here (DRC) until peace returns. Many people have suffered. Mine is just one story."