Shocked that the number of hungry people almost triple in Congo

Three of four people in the Congo are undernourished. The conflict was cited as the primary cause of the increase from 29 percent to 76 percent (11 million to 43 million people).

The raise of food into 2009 will further increase hunger in Congo.

Many countries could soon experience a worsening food crisis « African Press International (API):
"The food price crisis of 2008 will continue into 2009 and might get worse, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The 2008 food crisis has already pushed 40 million people into hunger, bringing the number of undernourished in the world closer to a billion.

FAO economists made the gloomy prognosis at the release of their ninth progress report, State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008, since the 1996 World Food Summit on world hunger.

The authors warned that the situation in the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), which recorded most of the increase in the number of hungry people because of widespread and persistent conflict, could get worse. Between 2003 and 2005, the number of hungry in the DRC rose from 11 million to 43 million, and the proportion of undernourished rose from 29 percent to 76 percent."