The IPC conducted a projection update analysis for the period of January to June 2026, focused on the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. More than 9.9 million people in these four areas will continue to experience high levels of acute food insecurity in this period. Although [...]

Between July 2025 and June 2026, 4.18 million children aged 6–59 months are suffering or expected to suffer acute malnutrition and be in urgent need of nutrition services and treatment. This includes more than 1.35 million children suffering Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Additionally, nearly [...]

Food security in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is deteriorating as conflict continues to drive tens of thousands of people from their homes. Approximately 24.8 million people (21 percent of the population) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between September [...]

Escalating conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exacerbated the food crisis, leaving an estimated 27.7 million Congolese (24 percent of the analysed population) facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between January and June 2025. This [...]

Armed violence and conflict continue to affect the livelihoods of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This, combined with soaring food prices and the prolonged effects of various epidemics have left approximately 25.6 million in high levels of acute food insecurity, classified as IPC [...]

Between July 2024 and June 2025, nearly 4.5 million children aged 6 to 59 months are facing or expected to face acute malnutrition, including approximately 1.4 million cases of severe acute malnutrition and 3.1 million cases of moderate acute malnutrition. It is also estimated that 3.7 million pregn [...]

The latest Chronic Food Insecurity analysis revealed that the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains critical, with about 40 percent of the population facing IPC Level 3 or above chronic food insecurity. This includes 15.7 million people facing Severe (IPC Level 4) and 25.1 mi [...]

Over 1.1 million children aged 6 to 59 months and approximately 605,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women (PBW) are facing/expected to face elevated levels of acute malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between July 2023 and June 2024. This includes approximately 254,000 children who ar [...]

Between July and December 2023, approximately 25.4 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). This includes around 3 percent of people (around 3.5 million people) classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and 20 percent (ar [...]

Approximately 25.8 million people are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or above between January and June 2023. According to an updated projection analysis conducted in April 2023, this is an increase on the already high magnitude of 24.5 [...]