[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- Endemic insecurity in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North and South Kivu and Ituri) has serious humanitarian consequences. In the province of Ituri alone, according to the United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there are 2.8 million people affected by acute food insecurity and more than 1.7 million internally displaced persons, of whom 14% live in camps and 86% stay with families who have agreed to host them. The reason for such a high number