DRC: Congo worst humanitarian crisis

Eastern Congo is suffering the world's worst current humanitarian crisis, with a death toll outstripping that in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, according to a top UN official. United Nations emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that over the last six years the toll in the DRC amounted to "one tsunami every six months" - a reference to the December disaster which left about 300,000 people dead or missing in Asia. "In terms of the human lives lost ... this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today and it is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention," he told a news conference. Egeland was speaking during a visit to Geneva for talks with UN and other relief workers on improving the global humanitarian aid system.