Overview
- The World Food Programme says it has received roughly $150 million this year and needs about $349–350 million more to keep operations running in eastern Congo.
- Monthly assistance has already been cut from about one million people to 600,000 and could fall to 300,000 without rapid new funding.
- Needs are surging, with more than 10 million people in crisis or worse and around three million at emergency levels, as an IPC assessment estimates nearly 25 million nationwide at IPC3 or higher.
- Access has deteriorated with the Goma and Bukavu airports shut for months, repeated bank closures blocking cash transfers, and rainy-season damage further restricting road deliveries.
- Rising displacement linked to M23 fighting has pushed the total to roughly 5.2 million, including 1.6 million this year, while Rwanda rejects accusations it backs the rebels.