As its resources such as timber, diamonds, gold, coltan, and cassiterite (tin ore) areused to finance conflict, the number of hungry people rose from 11 million in 1990???92 to 43 millionpeople in 2003???05, and the proportion of undernourished population soared to 69%, the highest inthe world, in 2005???07.12 The security situation has improved in recent years, but outbreaks of violencehave occur