WFP highlights severe hunger Crisis in Eastern Democratic Republic

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) issued a dire warning on Thursday, revealing that three million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo now face emergency levels of hunger, a figure that has nearly doubled in the past year amid relentless conflict and a severe funding crisis.

WFP Country Director Cynthia Jones described an alarming reality for families, who are “skipping their meals, depleting all of their…