UNDP warns Ebola could deepen poverty in DRC, risk regional spread

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Damien Mama, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Permanent Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), stated that the Ebola outbreak would push approximately one million more people into poverty in a country like the DRC, where six out of ten people already live below the poverty line.

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Trade is stalling, borders are closing, almost a million people are slipping into poverty: the health crisis is developing into an economic catastrophe for Central Africa.