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.

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 ...

7 February 2025 — UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) caused by the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian suffering, a crisis decades in the making. Despite being one of the world’s ...

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 ...

Read the full statement: Pax Christi International's Urgent Call to the UN: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis and Confronting Global Indifference for Peace in the DRC Brussels, January 29th, 2025 The ...