Hunger is rampant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where 1 in 4 people are experiencing a food crisis, including 5.4 million on the brink of famine.

Over two million internally displaced persons are facing extreme hunger, with 738,000 in critical conditions. Bahavu Linda, a farmer who lost her home and livestock due to the violence, emphasized ...

LONDON (AlertNet) - Twenty-six countries have “alarming” or “extremely alarming” hunger levels, with the situation deteriorating particularly badly in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The World Health Organization warns that hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and disease have reached alarming levels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in the east, where a resurgence of ...

The United Nations says hunger is soaring in the Democratic Republic of Congo mainly because of fighting and widespread displacement in Kasai and Tanganyika in Central and Eastern DRC. The United ...

With the rising hunger, the most vulnerable in the DRC are suffering. Over 4 million infants are going to need treatment to prevent deadly malnutrition.

For humanitarian agencies trying to keep people alive, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) presents multiple challenges: hunger, displacement, disease and violence.

About 7.7 million people are on the verge of starvation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a 30 percent increase since last year, according to UN food agencies. The number of people on pre ...

As one woman in the DRC told me, "What we need is peace. The rest we can build." Ending hunger requires more than aid—it requires courage and political will to bring peace.

But as Global Goalscast hosts Edie Lush and Claudia Romo Edelman found, the key to ending hunger is finding peace. According to the World Food Program, 113 million people in 53 countries are ...

Failed truce intensifies conflict in DRC as UN warns of record hunger crisis. A truce announced last week by AFC/M23 rebels in Walikale, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has collapsed ...

On the outskirts of Goma, the dusty and scruffy regional capital in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a flare-up in fighting between underpaid and ill-disciplined government troops and ...