World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Displaced people lining up for WFP at Don Bosco, a Catholic institution in North Kivu's provincial capital of Goma, where thousands of people have sought refuge from the fighting.

Many of those who found refuge at Don Bosco had already been displaced by previous unrest in eastern DRC.

WFP food distribution at Mugunga 1 camp for displaced people in North Kivu, just days after rebels took over the provincial capital.

Just 10 kilometres from Goma, Kanyaruchinya camp recently housed 35,000 displaced people.

But today, the only reminders of Kanayaruchinya's residents are the scraps of garbage scattered across the camp....

WFP is providing rations of maize, pulses, salt and cooking oil to feed those uprooted by the violence.

With donor support, WFP has been offering food assistance to nearly one million people in five eastern provinces of DRC.