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In Numbers
235.209 MT of food assistance distributed.
USD 45,985.735 cash-based transfers made.
USD 9.5 million net funding requirements for the next six months (March 2025 – August 2025), representing 49 percent of total needs.
97,860 people assisted in February 2025.
Operational Updates
• The Country Director met with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo (RoC), Anatole Collinet Makosso, on February 20 to discuss food security in the country and the need to mobilize local resources and gradually transition WFP’s school feeding programme to the national government.
• The same day, the Government of the Republic of Congo officially signed its national commitment to the Global School Meals Coalition, a coalition of over 100 countries pledged to school feeding. As RoC has been a member of the coalition since August 2021, this signature marks the next milestone in the government's determination to develop a national Congolese-led school feeding programme, including by maintaining the budget allocated to school feeding, revising the national school feeding policy, and creating a national school feeding committee and a technical committee.
• The Country Director met with the Congolese Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries on February 8 to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the agricultural sector, providing an opportunity to explore ways of working together to support smallholder farmers, improve agricultural productivity and strengthen the resilience of communities in the face of climate-related challenges.
Emergencies
• Media reports noted that around 3,500 people fled the ethnic conflict in the Bolobo and Kwamouth regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and arrived in several localities in Pool and Plateaux departments along the Congo River. Under the designation of the UN Resident Coordinator in Congo, WFP agreed to lead the coordination of humanitarian response preparation and conducted an assessment mission in collaboration with the Congolese Ministry of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action and UNHCR.