Tag: DR Congo

By Andrew Wasike, Nairobi, Kenya: Around 15 million people, including women and children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo are without food in 2018, up from 7.7 million last year. “The deteriorating hunger situation is concentrated in the ten provinces most adversely affected by violence,” Norwegian Refugee Council said in a statement, citing a report by World Food Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization and DR Congo’s Ministry of Agriculture. “There have also been reports of women and girls in North Kivu going into prostitution to make money to buy food, as...