Alarming rate of disease and malnutrition

Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has called on the UN Security Council to come to the rescue of the population on both sides of the conflict in the DRC. “The war has caused widespread population displacement and a total collapse of the economy,” an MSF statement said.” An urgent reaction is required in order to reduce the likelihood of a large scale food crisis in the cities and isolated regions of the country.”

According to MSF, an estimated 900,000 people in the DRC are displaced and living in squalid conditions. “In large cities, food supplies have been curtailed and prices have skyrocketed. The six million inhabitants in Kinshasa are finding it harder and harder to feed themselves,” the statement said. “In Kisangani, a city of 400,000, over 7,000 children are suffering from malnutrition.”