THE fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo, a region engulfed in conflicts and a fight over precious minerals, the head of the United Nations food agency warned on Wednesday.

During a visit to the hard-hit Ituri province, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) acting executive director, Carl Skau, said the outbreak is a “crisis on top of a crisis” that has compounded a catastrophic situation with over five million Congolese already experiencing emergency-level food insecurity.

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