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Record 28 million people face acute hunger in conflict-ravaged Congo

FILE PHOTO: Girls eat outside their parent's house in Mushaki

FILE PHOTO: Girls eat outside their parent's house in Mushaki, which is controlled by M23 rebels, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, March 22, 2025.

(Reuters) -Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an escalating conflict between the government and Rwandan-backed rebels in the east, the United Nations said on Thursday.

A longstanding humanitarian crisis in Congo has been aggravated by the conflict, with 2.5 million more people becoming acutely hungry since the most recent surge of violence in December, the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a joint statement.





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