Bangui – Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday that one of its employees in the strife-torn Central African Republic had been shot dead by a soldier.
Mahamat Ahamat, a 46-year-old drugs delivery man, was shot three times on Saturday in Moyenne-Sido, a town 500km (300 miles) north of the capital Bangui located next to the Chadian border, MSF said in a statement.
It condemned what it called a “murder” and called on the authorities to investigate.
One of the poorest countries in the world, the CAR has been wracked by violence since a civil war broke out in 2013.
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Fighting fell back in 2018 but many parts of the country remain deeply troubled.
Nearly one in two of the population of around 5.5 million was in a situation of “acute food insecurity” last year, according to UN figures.
The head of MSF Spain’s mission in the CAR, Romain Briey, said Ahamat, a CAR national who had been locally hired, was shot down “at home by a member of the CAR armed forces” at six am. He died of his injuries several hours later.
CAR presidential spokesperson Albert Yaloke Mokpeme declined to comment, telling AFP he had no information about the incident.
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