Why These Humanitarian Crises Demand Your Attention

As 2024 began, The New Humanitarian published an analysis focusing on how - even as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominated headlines - it's important to remember the many other crises being too easily forgotten by the media and neglected by aid donors.
Tens of millions of affected people in Sudan, DR Congo, the Sahel, and the Horn of Africa continue to live in extreme hunger or extreme danger, and access restraints and funding limitations mean many can't be reached by an overwhelmed international aid system.
Halfway through the year, the publication takes another look at those crises with updated data and analysis.

Sudan is in the grips of a humanitarian catastrophe (file photo)

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People displaced by conflict live in a temporary camp near Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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In Tigray, the war has been blamed for the rapid increase of violence against women.

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