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Japan gives 4,100 mt of corn flour to fight food insecurity

    KINSHASA
    Japan has provided 4,100 mt of corn flour to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to feed food-insecure people in a number of regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The corn flour was presented to WFP during a ceremony held on Thursday in the capital, Kinshasa. WFP country representative Felix Bamezon said the contribution was worth about US $5 million. He said the contribution would be directed to people suffering from critical food insecurity in the southwest provinces of Kinshasa, Bas-Congo, and Bandundu; as well as Equateur in the northwest and Orientale in the northeast. He also said that internally displaced persons; malnourished children and pregnant/lactating women; refugees from neighbouring Angola and Central African Republic; and other groups deemed "vulnerable" would receive the aid.

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