Since December 2020 the security and humanitarian situation has deteriorated rapidly in Central African Republic (CAR) as a coalition of armed groups clashes with the government, supported by United Nations (UN) military personnel and foreign troops, in the wake of presidential and general elections.
Fighting reached the outskirts of the capital, Bangui, on January 13, 2021. Thirty-one-year-old France Beldo was hit by a stray bullet and taken to SICA Hospital, a surgical trauma facility run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
