Famine looms on doorstep of DRC's capital
“It’s hard to eat here. There are no fields and no food. Life is hard,” said Albertine Nzale, traditional chief of Kinduti, on the outskirts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa. The village sits at the end of a bumpy track through the savanna outside the nation’s largest city. There are no grain stores in its straw-roofed huts, no crops or farms along the 35km dirt road through the grassland — just men pushing ancient bikes loaded with sacks of charcoal under a sweltering sun. Albertine, 80, is worried for the village’s future and wants help. “We don...
Source: taipeitimes.com