Photograph by Ugo Borga.

Central African Republic, Obo, November 2019: Majorettes of Obo parade through the streets of the town to mark the national holiday. The town of Obo is under siege by the militias of the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC), a formation belonging to the Seleka group, and, for over 10 years, by the Lord's Resistance Army, an extremist Christian rebel formation, also called the Army of the Lord or the Ten Commandments. If you try to escape the city, you die. If you try to work the fields, you die or disappear into thin air. Kidnappings, disappearances, torture and attacks on the civilian population are very frequent. The only way to reach Obo is onboard a small Unhas twin-engine.

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Ugo Lucio Borga is an Italian writer and photojournalist. His work has always focused on wars, even forgotten ones, on humanitarian crises, on social and environmental issues in Africa, South America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

He has carried out in-depth coverage all over the world including events such as the Arab Spring, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Somalia, Libya, Syria, South Sudan, religious clashes in northern Lebanon, the dictatorship of Eritrea, the war in Ukraine, the war in Iraq against the Islamic State.

He is president of the Six Degrees Association, which aims to openly talk about wars, ethnicity, religious and racial conflicts, political and social instability, issues related to immigration, poverty, marginalization and discrimination in all parts of the world.