Conflict, displacement, high food prices and outbreaks of Ebola and other diseases are pushing DR Congo's hunger to a record, with 30.3 million people projected to face crisis levels or worse from January to June 2027.
WFP has served more than 744,000 hot meals in Ebola treatment and isolation centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and says it needs $214m over six months as the outbreak spreads to an eighth province.
WorldA JPY 300 million grant will let WFP serve school meals to 57,000 pupils in the Republic of Congo and support refugees and asylum seekers from the DRC and Central African Republic.
HealthDeaths from the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in Congo have reached 4,018, with 8,300 confirmed cases in seven provinces, second only to the 2014 to 2016 West African epidemic.
Snakebite is quietly killing close to 150,000 people a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a crisis a photographer set out to document.
