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The experience of one village shows how the World Food Programme can change lives in a year of unprecedented hunger, one community at a time

It's hard to eat here. There are no fields and no food. Life is hard,” says Albertine Nzale, traditional chief of Kinduti, on the outskirts of the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa. The village sits at the end of a bumpy track through the savanna outside the largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

It's hard to eat here. There are no fields and no food. Life is hard,” says Albertine Nzale, traditional chief of Kinduti, on the outskirts of the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa. The village sits at the end of a bumpy track through the savanna outside the largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Kinshasa, DR Congo Feb 14-"It's hard to eat here. There are no fields and no food. Life is hard," says Albertine Nzale, traditional chief of Kinduti, on Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |

On the outskirts of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the usually tranquil village of Kinduti is plagued by hunger, as the World Food Programme (WFP) tries to avert the catastrophe of famine throughout the country. The DRC is among the countries most-affected by starvation