Aid workers have condemned conditions in disease-ridden refugee camps in the Central African Republic as "deplorable", as the birth of a baby highlights how difficult life has become for many in the war-torn country.
Nearly one million people have been displaced by fighting that has intensified since rebel Seleka fighters seized power in March 2013.
Many of them have been forced into refugee camps on the borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west.
An estimated 2.2 million people - around half the population - desperately need humanitarian aid, with food and medical supplies increasingly hard to find.
Fighting has forced nearly one million people to flee their homes Sky News was filming in the Central African Republic when a teenage rape victim went into labour.
The 16-year-old, whose brother and sister were both slaughtered by the Seleka, writhed on a bed in excruciating pain as midwives battling a shortage of drugs and struggling to keep infection at bay forced her baby into the world.
Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford said: "She was alone, chased from her home and pregnant after rape, trying to give birth to another.
"When the little boy was finally dragged into the Central African Republic, he wasn't breathing.
Thousands of soldiers have been deployed in the Central African Republic "It was a brutal birth to a baby boy she never wanted, into a dangerously chaotic and unstable country."
Doctor Freddie Rehote, of the charity Save The Children, said: "It's deplorable here. It's extremely urgent that these people go back to their homes because life is very difficult.
"They've been here more than a month now. Everyone wants their security back."
The largely Muslim Seleka coalition has unleashed a wave of killings targeting the majority Christian population, which has in turn sparked revenge attacks by "anti-balaka" Christian militia.
Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet is the country's interim leader Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet, who took control of the national council after rebel leader Michel Djotodia stood down on Friday, has declared "the pillaging and the chaos are over".
Some 1,600 French troops and 4,000 African Union peacekeepers are on patrol in the country, while the United Nations has asked for an extra $40m (£24.4m) of humanitarian aid.
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