The NGOs Médecins sans frontières, one of whose employees was killed, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), denounced Wednesday "
the new wave of violence
" and the fighting which continues in the Central African Republic after the presidential elections. and legislative Sunday.
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An MSF aid worker died after an attack on a public transport truck on Monday in Grimari, near Bambari, the country's fourth city some 380km northeast of Bangui, which was temporarily taken last week by rebels during an offensive aimed at disrupting the electoral process.
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Our colleague was not on duty and had taken this public transport truck to go from Bambari to Bangui when the shooting broke out,
" the NGO said in a statement on Wednesday.
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There were 19 wounded and 3 dead,
" Emmanuel Lampaert, MSF head of mission in the Central African Republic, told AFP.
On the evening of December 27, the ICRC premises in Bouar, in the west of the country, were also ransacked by armed men who also injured three security employees.
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We are shocked, it is a violent attack with the use of firearms,
" said Taoffic Touré, the ICRC communications coordinator in the Central African Republic, indignantly.
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These incidents occur while the security conditions have deteriorated sharply in recent weeks following clashes between armed groups and state forces,
" said the NGO in a statement.
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The two organizations reiterated that humanitarian workers should not be targeted in the fighting between rebels and government forces, supplemented by reinforcements from Rwanda and Russia.
The Central African Republic was ravaged by civil war after a coalition of predominantly Muslim armed groups, the Séléka, overthrew the regime of President François Bozizé in 2013. Since 2018, the war has evolved into a low-intensity conflict, where armed groups control two-thirds of the territory and compete for control of the country's resources, while regularly perpetrating abuses against civilian populations.