The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ms. Cyndi McCain, discussed on Thursday during an audience at the African Union city in Kinshasa the means of securing food access for the populations in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it was learned from the Presidency.

The Head of State and his guest reviewed the WFP's interventions at the sites for displaced persons and refugees in the east of the DRC, as well as the country's capacity to cope with all food crises and even to become a food-exporting country.

After the meeting, Ms. Cyndi McCain stated: "We discussed our role as a partner for food security and ensuring that the current security situation in the east of the DRC can no longer exist for access to food security."

Boni Tsala