Millions face starvation in Democratic Republic of Congo, UN warns

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Millions face starvation in Democratic Republic of Congo, UN warns
Chris Baynes

More than three million people are at risk of starvation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations (UN) food agency has warned.

Hundreds of thousands of children may die in the coming months if aid is not urgently delivered to the conflict-wracked central African nation, said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP).

Violence erupted between rebel militia and government forces in Congo’s Kasai province in August 2016 and has intensified since President Joseph Kabila refused to step down when his constitutional mandate ended in December.

The conflict has left 1.5 million people homeless, many of them children, in a country still recovering from a brutal civil war.

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