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DR Congo - Situation and Response Factsheet (January - June 2018)

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Situation - Key Numbers

4.49 million Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) (OCHA, April 2018)

7.9 million children in need of humanitarian assistance (OCHA, Jan.2018)

2 million Children are suffering from Sever Acute malnutrition (DRC Cluster Nutrition, May 2018)

12,726 cases of cholera reported since January 2018 (Ministry of Health, June 2018)

Key Highlights

● On the 13th of April, a total pledge of $500 million was made by donors during the Geneva conference towards the humanitarian crisis in the DRC as the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs highlights the consequences of violence by armed groups, ethnic strife, political instability, and food insecurity on children and civilians.

● 11 May 2018, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director (DED), Fatoumata Ndiaye, together with the DRC Minister of Cooperation and Development launched the DRC Child Alert to raise awareness on the 2.3 million children in need of humanitarian assistance due to violent conflicts in the Kasai Regions. During the week, UNICEF DED also led a high-level field mission to the Kasai Region and Goma, North Kivu to raise awareness on the dire humanitarian crisis faced by children and their families.

● 08 May 2018, the Ministry of Public Health in the DRC declared an Ebola outbreak in the province of Equateur