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Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn aid agencies
By UN News
Nov 21, 2024 12:34 pm

UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that one in four people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from 'crisis or worse' levels of hunger that affects a staggering 25.6 million people.

The alert from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) follows a new dire assessment from UN-partnered food insecurity experts has shown the hunger crisis is affecting much of the vast central African nation.

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