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Children in the DRC are facing one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with one in every four people in need of humanitarian support due to violent conflict, climate-related disasters and disease outbreaks. Fighting has escalated drastically in 2025 to levels not seen in a decade.
Children are being killed and injured, their hospitals and schools have come under attack, and they are at grave risk of recruitment by armed forces, child labour, abductions, and sexual violence.
In the first half of December, more than 500,000 people, including a reported 100,000 children (although this figure is likely to be higher), were forced from their areas as they fled escalating violence in Kivu province. Armed groups descended with heavy weapons on multiple fronts, directly targeting civilians, killing and injuring nearly 200 people.
Children and families have sought refuge in other parts of the country, as well as across the border in Burundi and Rwanda. Thousands of children need urgent support following this latest escalation – food, water, shelter, medical care. The situation is desperate, and we need urgent action, now.
This is just the latest chapter in a living nightmare for children in the DRC, that has been dealing with violent conflict for nearly three decades. The country is already facing one of the world’s worst food insecurity crises, with about 14 million children facing critical hunger – one in five – the highest number globally for an individual country.
Over 4 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition, including over 1 million children facing severe acute malnutrition, which can be life-threatening without treatment.
