{"id":1474,"date":"2025-11-07T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:17:50","slug":"un-sounds-alarm-over-rising-hunger-crisis-in-eastern-dr-congo-united-nations-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"UN sounds alarm over rising hunger crisis in eastern DR Congo | United Nations News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>WFP says a \u2018deepening hunger crisis\u2019 is unfolding and that it may have to pause food aid due to record low funding.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 7 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">7 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday a \u201cdeepening hunger crisis\u201d was unfolding in the region, but warned it was only able to reach a fraction of those in need due to acute funding shortages and access difficulties.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at historically low levels of funding. We\u2019ve probably received about $150m this year,\u201d said Cynthia Jones, country director of the WFP for the DRC, pointing to a need for $350m to help people in desperate need in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne in three people in DRC\u2019s eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri, and Tanganyika are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. That\u2019s over 10 million people,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf that, an alarming three million people are in emergency levels of hunger,\u201d she told a media briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>She said this higher level meant people were facing extreme gaps in food consumption and very high levels of malnutrition, adding that the numbers of people that are facing emergency levels of hunger is surging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has almost doubled since last year,\u201d said Jones. \u201cPeople are already dying of hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"years-long-conflict\">Years-long conflict<\/h2>\n<p>The area has been rocked by more than a year of fighting. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has seized swaths of the eastern DRC since taking up arms again in 2021, compounding a humanitarian crisis and the more than three-decade conflict in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The armed group\u2019s lightning offensive saw it capture the key eastern cities of Goma and Bukavu, near the border with Rwanda. It has set up an administration there parallel to the government in Kinshasa and taken control of nearby mines.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has denied supporting the rebels. Both M23 and Congolese forces have been accused of carrying out atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the WFP was facing \u201ca complete halt of all emergency food assistance in the eastern provinces\u201d from February or March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the two airports in the east, Goma and Bukavu, had been shut for months.<\/p>\n<p>WFP wants an air bridge set up between neighbouring Rwanda and the eastern DRC, saying it would be a safer, faster and more effective route than from Kinshasa, on the other side of the vast nation.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the WFP had received up to $600m in funding. In 2024, it received about $380m.<\/p>\n<p>UN agencies, including the WFP, have been hit by major cuts in US foreign aid, as well as other major European donors reducing overseas aid budgets to increase defence spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFP says a \u2018deepening hunger crisis\u2019 is unfolding and that it may have to pause food aid due to record low funding. 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