{"id":71853,"date":"2021-04-08T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=71853"},"modified":"2021-04-08T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:10:33","slug":"staggering-hunger-crisis-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2021\/04\/08\/staggering-hunger-crisis-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Staggering\u2019 Hunger Crisis: Democratic Republic of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Staggering\u2019 Hunger Crisis Identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 7 (EIRNS)\u2014The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program issued a cry of alarm yesterday, that they had found in their recently-completed review of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a \u201cstaggering\u201d scale of acute hunger. Some 27.3 million people\u2014one in three citizens of that nation\u2014are \u201cacutely hungry,\u201d with nearly 7 million of those people classified as in emergency status, one step below famine, able to survive only by such extreme strategies as selling off their last animal which provides their livelihood, or by begging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis makes the central African country home to the highest number of people in urgent need of food security assistance in the world,\u201d the statement from the two agencies reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These figures include 3.3 million of that nation\u2019s children who are malnourished, children who if not quickly provided with enough nutritious food may never recover from stunting of their mental and physical growth which malnutrition brings about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WFP\u2019s representative in the D.R. Congo, Peter Musoko, is quoted: \u201cFor the first time ever we were able to analyze the vast majority of the population, and this has helped us to come closer to the true picture of the staggering scale of food insecurity in the D.R.C. This country should be able to feed its population and export a surplus. We cannot have children going to bed hungry and families skipping meals for an entire day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO Representative in the D.R. Congo Aristide Ongone Obame urged: \u201cWe need to urgently focus on growing food where it is needed most, and on keeping people\u2019s sustenance-giving animals alive. The main agricultural season is around the corner and there is no time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two agencies drove home the human condition only reflected in these statistics: \u201cBehind the numbers are the stories of parents deprived of access to their land, or forced to flee for their lives, watching their children fall sick for lack of food. WFP staff have met families who have returned to their village to find their home burnt to the ground and their crops entirely looted. Some have been surviving by eating only taro, a root that grows wild, or only cassava leaves boiled in water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never forget that such intolerable conditions are not \u201cnatural,\u201d nor unsolvable; they are the results of humanity\u2019s failure to leave the oligarchical system behind. As American statesman Lyndon LaRouche proved scientifically, and China\u2019s just-released White Paper \u201cPoverty Alleviation: China\u2019s Experience and Contribution\u201d asserted, \u201cpoverty is not predestined, nor is it unconquerable\u2026. With strong will and determination, as well as practical action, one can make steady progress towards overcoming poverty and realizing common prosperity.\u201d China’s full report is here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Staggering\u2019 Hunger Crisis Identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo April 7 (EIRNS)\u2014The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program issued a cry of alarm yesterday, that they had found in their recently-completed review of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a \u201cstaggering\u201d scale of acute hunger. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":71854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,520,505,446,506],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-71853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-bri","category-updates-wlb","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71864,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853\/revisions\/71864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}