About 50 Million Lack Safe Drinking Water in DRC

An estimated 51 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - three quarters of the population - have no access to safe drinking water, the UN said in a new study.

Women carry jerry cans of water in north Kivu, eastern DRC

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