Amid violence in Congo, MCC sends food

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AKRON, Pa.—Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is helping provide food to about 30,000  people who have been displaced by violence in the troubled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Fighting between government and rebel forces has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in Congo’s North Kivu province since last August, according to the United Nations. With financial support from MCC, relief workers are distributing a 20-day supply of beans, corn, rice, cooking oil and salt to recently displaced people in North Kivu and neighboring provinces.

Food has become scarce throughout North Kivu because farmers have fled their land, according to Kawaya Ngenda, a coordinator for the aid organization ACT International, which is carrying out the food distribution. Militants have looted and pillaged many villages, causing their residents to relocate to safer areas, Ngenda wrote in an email.—MCC

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