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Disease, hunger, violence threaten millions of refugees in Africa

WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.

Children are among the most vulnerable victims (AN/Michel Isamuna/Unsplash)

While much of the world focuses on the death and devastation in Gaza and Ukraine, a historic humanitarian crisis fueled by conflict, disease and weather is unfolding across central and northeast Africa.

Starvation, epidemics, climate change, civil wars, displacement and sex trafficking are upending the lives of millions of men and women, boy and girls.

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