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STORY: WFP / DRC DISPLACED POPULATION
TRT: 07:27
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: SWAHILI / ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 12-15 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
12 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1. Drone shots, Bulengo Camp
2. Various shots, families, shelters, Bulengo Camp
12-13 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
3. Various shots, displaced people moving towards Goma with their belongings
13 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
4. Various shots, new arrivals building shelters with pieces of plastic and wooden sticks
5. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Lumoo Msabia Furaha:
“I fled the attacks from Sake while bombs and gunshots were resounding with my six children. Since we arrived here, we haven’t received any assistance, and we’re hungry and do not know what to do.”
12 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
6. Various shots, set up Asifiwe Vumulia Shukuru
7. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Asifiwe Vumulia Shukuru:
“The health of my child is worrying. I’m terrified and stressed. For my child to be in this severe state means she is getting very little healthy food.”
8. Various shots, Asifiwe Vumulia Shukuru with niece
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Asifiwe Vumulia Shukuru:
"I cannot return to Kitchanga because of the ongoing conflict. I’m safe here. If the situation returns to normal, I will be grateful to God. When I go search for firewood, I’m forced to leave the small child and her little cousin all by themselves.”
10. Drone Shots, Goma
12-15 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
11. Various shots, Goma, military patrols
14 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
12. Various shots, exteriors, UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)’s Camp
13. Various shots, farmers working fields, market
14 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
14. Various shots, WFP food distribution
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Shelley Thakral, spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The conflict has not let up for 3 years. People have been uprooted from their home, from their lands, not once, not twice, but multiple times. We, as the World Food Programme, we have to be there to give food assistance, to give cash to make sure that these families don’t face hunger…these mothers don’t turn around and say, I have no food to feed my children. And we also have to keep telling the international community, don’t give up on these people, don’t ignore these people, don’t let this situation be tolerated.”
13 MARCH 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
16. Various shots, displaced family cooking and eating WFP food
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the conflict-driven hunger crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is worsening as violence in the eastern province’s surges, forcing families to flee once again.
More and more people are arriving at overcrowded camps where there is a lack of food, sanitation, and shelter.
In DRC, WFP’s emergency response in the east has tripled its beneficiary reach, from an average of 400,000 people in May 2023 to an average of 1.3 million people.
Nearly one million people have been displaced due to conflict since the start of the year, leading to food shortages and increased commodity prices in Goma's markets.
The imminent risk that the M23 armed group may seize Goma is deeply troubling.
Around a quarter of DRC’s population – 23.4 million people – are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Many live in poor and cramped conditions with little or no access to food, health services, and education.
More than 6 million people are displaced and cut off from their homes and livelihoods – including 900,000 people who’ve fled their homes since October 2023 in North Kivu alone.
Livelihoods have been decimated.
In Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu, the three conflict-affected eastern provinces, projections show 5.4 million people in acute hunger (IPC3+), of which 1.2 million remain in crisis levels of food insecurity (IPC4).
In North Kivu alone, half of all children are malnourished.
At the heart of a deepening hunger crisis lies a catastrophic situation for women and girls, particularly those living in IDP camps.
Women and girls face a constant threat from sexual violence, particularly when they go searching for firewood to sell to buy food for their families.
Putting food assistance in the hands of women and providing them with livelihood opportunities is key to curbing the horrifying rates of gender-based violence in DRC.
Funding shortages mean WFP is forced to choose who gets food and who goes without, especially in the east where humanitarian needs and conflict are surging.
WFP needs US$ 548.5 million to keep comprehensive operations in the DRC.
At minimum, WFP needs US$425 million for the next six months to meet the most acute needs of 1.5 million people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence has led to mass displacement.
