Photo by michaelchristopherbrown | At a stadium in Bangui, Central African Republic, in 2014, band members wait along with ministers and others for the arrival of Catherine Samba-Panza, then the republic's interim president. Despite having substantial resources such as uranium, crude oil, gold, diamonds, cobalt, lumber, and hydropower, as well as significant quantities of arable land, the Central African Republic had the lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2017.