Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided medical assistance by running hospitals, mobile clinics, vaccination campaigns and cholera programmes and treating victims of sexual violence.The lush and mineral-rich landscape in Democratic Republic of Congo is an ironic setting for a child malnutrition rate the World Bank puts at nearly 30 percent. Chronic violence and instability prevent the civilian population from accessing their country’s agricultural wealth.[Franco PAGETTI/VII]
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