TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PACOME PABANDJI 
Women sieve through the mud to find gold dust, on May 5, 2014 at the Gam gold mine, in Gaga, in the western part of the Central African Republic. Many people from Gaga are living of the handmade and ''clandestine'' exploitation of gold.  Central Africa has been plunged into a cycle of sectarian violence for more than a year after splinter groups of Seleka rebels went rogue, embarking on a campaign of killing, raping and looting. 
AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO        (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)