jmcnaughtonThe World Food Programme warns that the food insecurity crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse:
- The DRC is now home to 28 million acutely food insecure people (IPC 3 and above).
- This includes 2.3 million people in conflict-affected eastern DRC who are in IPC phase 4.
- https://www.wfp.org/news/more-people-are-driven-their-homes-drc-food-insecurity-worsens-creating-heightened
- https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163641
- https://axadletimes.com/ax-eye-on-africa/ax-east-africa/crisis-escalates-in-dr-congo-food-shortages-deepen-as-wfp-urgently-seeks-assistance.html5
- https://mastodon.social/@axadle/114573700202780178
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As more people are driven from their homes in DRC food insecurity worsens, creating heightened humanitarian needs regionally | World Food Programme
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the sheer scale of people being displaced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to escalating conflict, is pushing food insecurity to crisis proportions and deepening an already strained humanitarian response both internally and across the region.