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 BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - Shaking hands with droves of cheering street children, Mia Farrow began a weeklong tour of the Central African Republic on Saturday to draw attention — and aid — to one of the world's forgotten crises.
The 62-year-old actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador will visit some of the 150,000 people displaced by the nation's simmering conflict and tour northern towns recently ravaged by fighting close to the borders with Chad and Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
"It's called a forgotten crisis, a forgotten humanitarian crisis, but forgotten implies that it was once remembered," Farrow told The Associated Press in an interview in the country's capital of dirt roads and tumbledown, tin-roofed buildings. "I'm not sure it was in anyone's consciousness ... it's undetected."
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