The highlights this week: Sudanese refugees face worsening hunger amid unprecedented aid cuts, analysts remain skeptical of ...

As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC.Since ...

However, flying under the radar is the huge hunger crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a population around 14 times the size of Northern Ireland’s is going hungry.

GENEVA – Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains in recent weeks has displaced almost 10,000 people in Tanganyika Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This unfolding emergency ...

A staggering 28 million people, or roughly a quarter of the population, are suffering from severe food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to ongoing conflict in the eastern ...

A record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing conflict linked to massive displacement and rising food prices, global food ...

Across DRC on a scale of one to five - where five indicates famine - 3.9 million people in DRC are classified as IPC Phase 4, which indicates "emergency" levels of hunger - and a 23.8 million are ...

“All IDP sites in North Kivu, particularly in the Goma region, are now completely empty,” the IPC said, adding that of the 3.7 million internally displaced people formerly based in camps in eastern ...

Food prices skyrocket in DR Congo’s Goma after M23 takeover NGO ActionAid and locals say the cost of some items has risen between 18 and 160 percent as conflict blocks aid and supplies.

Children’s agency UNICEF ‘s Representative in DRC, Jean Francois Basse, described the situation in Goma as “extremely grave,” further complicating an already dire humanitarian crisis. He highlighted ...

28 January 2025 — The Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday over the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with UN agencies and partners ...