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- U.S. President Donald Trump's cuts halved Congo sanitation funding, reducing the 2024 appeal to $38 million and leaving it 21 % funded.
- At least 30 people have died in Kigonze camp in northeastern Congo since early May, including ten bodies buried in one week.
- Aid groups say overflowing latrines force residents to empty waste with bare hands, heightening disease risk as health workers await test results from five victims.
