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WFP: 10 million food insecure and 7 million displaced in eastern DRC as services collapse
Summary
World Food Programme officials said about 10 million people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are food insecure, roughly 7 million displaced, and that WFP assistance has fallen notably, worsening coping strategies in affected communities.
Carl Skow said an estimated 10,000,000 people in eastern DRC were acutely food insecure and that roughly 3,000,000 were in IPC 4 (emergency levels of food insecurity). He also said approximately 7,000,000 people have been displaced in the eastern DRC, with about 2,000,000 displaced in Ituri province alone.
Skow said WFP previously assisted around 3,000,000 people in a year but now reaches about 1,000,000, and described how desperate households are coping by selling belongings or taking risky livelihoods. He warned the erosion of health services—"some thousand health care centers has been closed down" in recent years in the transcript—and concurrent cholera outbreaks further strain the response.
