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UN to ramp up food aid in DRC to reach 9 million people
14 August 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

The World Food Programme said on Friday it was rapidly scaling up operations in Democratic Republic of Congo with millions facing "the world's second biggest hunger emergency."

The United Nations agency said it needed $172 million to prevent millions from plunging deeper into hunger over the next six months.

4 August 2020
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La seconde étape du projet LAND-at-scale a vu 19 embrassades néerlandaises recevoir 24 idées. Le comité en charge du projet a sélectionné les 6 idées les plus prometteuses en vue d’un développement futur 

 

28 July 2020
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Global

The second round of LAND-at-scale resulted in 24 ideas submitted by 19 Dutch embassies. The LAND-at-scale Committee selected 6 most promising ideas to develop further. 

Cooperation, traceability needed to ensure success of DRC artisanal mining
17 July 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

he successful integration of a number of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been driven by cooperation with large-scale miners (LSMs), refiners, traders and the embedding of traceability measures, says natural resource t

The Hands That Steal: Who Is Benefitting From Aid to the DRC?  Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2020/07/17/the-hands-that-steal-who-is-benefitting-from-aid-to-the-drc/ The Elephant - Speaking truth to power.
17 July 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A review by an anti-fraud taskforce has revealed massive corruption in the DRC involving employees of the UN and international NGOs. Lack of oversight on how aid to the DRC’s vulnerable populations is dispersed has allowed bribery to flourish in one of the world’s most mineral-rich and conflict-prone countries.

(Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)
9 July 2020
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Global

Oxfam International warned Thursday that up to 12,000 people could die each day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to the coronavirus pandemic—a daily death toll surpassing the daily mortality rate from Covid-19 itself.

April saw the highest global daily mortality rate for Covid-19 thus far with just over 10,000 deaths per day.

AFP
9 June 2020
Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Diamantes, coltan, água, são algumas das riquezas naturais e minerais por trás das violências que vem assolando a parte oriental do Congo, ex-Zaire. O analista do ISPI, Camillo Casola, conversou com o Vatican News, recordando quer as ações dos diversos grupos armados locais como das forças congolesas.
 

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