•Current FACTS• An updated Oxfam report also notes the following facts (some numbers may be out of date and have gotten worse, but the sheer scale of these numbers alone are shocking): ! More than two million people are internally displaced; of these, over 50 per cent are in eastern DRC. More than one million of the displaced have received absolutely no outside assistance. ! It is estimated that up to 2.5 million people in DRC have died since the outbreak of the war, many from preventable diseases. !