The World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the Kasai province of Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been ravaged by conflict.
The head of the UN Food Agency, David Beasley said more than three million people, including hundreds of thousands of malnourished children risk starvation.
He warned that those children could die in the coming months if aid was not delivered.
Violence erupted in Kasai in August 2016 after the death of a local leader during clashes with security forces.
1.5 million people most of them are children and they have been forced to flee from their homes.