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Hunger threatens Congo after fighting cuts supply

By Reuters
24 December 2022   |   1:35 pm
Picking up spoiled kernels from a sack of maize is the only job farmers like Valerie Kahindo can find in the eastern Congolese city of Goma. After rebel fighters seized her fields, she was forced to flee without her eight children.

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