MSF worker killed by gunmen in Central African Republic


  • World
  • Friday, 20 May 2016

A sign is pictured over a black sheet outside the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

DAKAR (Reuters) - Medical relief charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has halted operations in part of west Central African Republic after a staff member was shot dead during an ambush on one of its convoys, it said on Thursday.

The convoy carrying patients and doctors was stopped by unidentified armed men on Wednesday about 80 kilometres north of Bossangoa, said a statement by the charity, known in English as Doctors Without Borders

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