The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have issued an urgent warning about the rapidly worsening humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , where millions of people are facing severe food shortages amid ongoing conflict, displacement, and economic hardship.

According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released this week, 26.6 million people across the DRC are projected to face crisis or worse levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 and above) by early 2026. This represents a sharp increase from the current figure of 24.8 million. Alarmingly, 3.9 million people are now experiencing emergency levels of hunger (IPC Phase 4) — a surge from 3.2 million earli

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