7 Million Displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo as M23 Attacks Continue
A food distribution programme to displaced persons in North Kivu, an ICRC employee is giving a distribution card to a mother. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Katsuva Kamate. By Tanupriya Singh / Peoples Dispatch Almost seven million people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — the highest number on record— amid an escalation of fighting in a war that has been ongoing for two decades. The country’s eastern provinces have been the worst-affected following a