UN lacks cash to feed 300,000 in Congo

Food aid is being cut back in Congo due to lack of funding that could affect hundreds of thousands of hungry people, the World Food Program said Tuesday. The UN agency says its $478-million US plan to feed 4.2 million people in Congo through Dec. 2015 is only 25 per cent funded, and without more money it won’t be able to help 300,000 internally displaced people in North Kivu province.