DR Congo loses $1B per year to child malnutrition: UN

Losses to the country each year could equal 4.5 pct of country’s GDP, says new UN report.

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is losing more than $1 billion a year due to the effects of child malnutrition, according to a new UN report.

This could amount to some 4.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, said a UN statement on Friday.

The report was undertaken by the nation’s government in…