[SIZE=7]Ukraine invasion sparks hunger fears in DRC[/SIZE] Thursday March 17 2022
The DRC boasts massive mineral resource and millions of hectares (acres) of potential farmland.
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[li]But precarity is especially keen in the DRC’s northeast, where the economy is hobbled by geographical remoteness and decades of violence.[/li][li]The local price of corn meal, rice, sugar, oil and tomatoes have all shot up, posing a mighty challenge for those who have to survive on a couple of dollars a day.[/li][li]The average cost for a tanker bringing in petrol from across the border has risen from $726 to $900, said Urbain Kange, secretary of Bukavu’s fuel industry association.[/li][/ul]
Rising prices for food, sent soaring by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are stoking fears of hunger and turmoil in a troubled corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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