According to WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain, the conflict in the African country is uprooting families and hunger and malnutrition are increasing by the day. This is why the institution she heads has been on the ground distributing essential foodstuffs.

However, resources are scarce and a high figure is required to continue with the aid to the affected populations, she said in her account on the social network X.

WFP teams concluded Tuesday the delivery of supplies of rice, beans, corn flour, vegetable oil and salt in Lubero-Centre and Musienene to nearly 130,000 internally displaced persons.

Meanwhile, to prevent acute malnutrition, more than 15,000 children aged six to 59 months received PlumpyDoz fortified peanut paste, in addition to cooking demonstrations for mothers on how to prepare fortified porridge.

The UN agency also worked in this area to educate more than 43,000 parents and guardians on good infant and young child feeding practices, essential to prevent malnutrition from an early age.

Meanwhile, some 300,000 people who returned to Masisi territory in North Kivu province also received food assistance, especially in the villages of Matanda, Kitshanga and Kilolirwe.

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