28.8 million people in DR Congo face crisis-level hunger as conflict and a record Ebola outbreak collide

L2Who’s affected

Displaced people, returnees, refugees and poor households, above all in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, where 10.4 million people are in Phase 3 or above. Djugu, Fizi, Shabunda and Walungu territories are classified in Emergency (Phase 4). Save the Children says more than 2,700 children have been infected in the Ebola outbreak.

L3Why it’s quiet

We don’t have media-coverage data for this story yet, so we won’t guess why it was quiet. It is here because the outlets below reported it and it drew little wider attention.

L4Deeper impact

The IPC says conflict and displacement, a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak, rising food and fuel prices, and floods and other climate shocks are compounding one another. Movement restrictions and fear of infection are cutting families off from food, work and health care, Save the Children says, Opinion · Save the Children assessment raising the risk of child malnutrition.

L5Full context

Prediction · IPC The IPC expects conditions to worsen from January to June 2027, to 30.3 million people in Phase 3 or worse, driven by conflict, the spread of Ebola, Prediction · IPC expected El Niño flooding that could disrupt farming and markets, rising prices and declining humanitarian assistance. The Ebola outbreak, which began in Ituri, has passed 10,000 cases and reached eight DRC provinces and three other African countries.

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