DRC: Central Katanga situation improves, but much remains to be done

Several months after the onset of a crisis that displaced 150,000 people in central Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the humanitarian situation is beginning to improve. The UN World Food Program has begun airdrops of food to Dubie, promising to deliver 80 tons over the next several days, with additional airdrops planned for Mitwaba and Sampwe after April 10. This should begin to reduce mortality rates, which, according to Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), are well above emergency thresholds of 4.3 per 10,000 people per day.