The IRC’s 2022 Watchlist of countries at risk of deepening humanitarian crisis reveals a world in which the systems set up to prevent human suffering are broken.
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The resurgence of the worst invasion of desert locusts in Ethiopia’s history is raising hunger levels amidst continued conflict in the Tigray region and the COVID-19 pandemic, where Ethiopia faces the highest number of cases in the Horn of Africa, says International Rescue Committee (IRC).
At least 1 million Ethiopians have suffered crop losses due to the locust outbreaks and the loss of crops and animal pasture has contributed to 11 million Ethiopians being forecast to go hungry in the first half of 2021. Children are especially vulnerable. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is calling for unfettered, impartial access to affected populations and increased support in the fight against locusts for already vulnerable population battles increasing food insecurity.
Triple threat of Covid, climate change and conflict has plunged millions into need, charity warns
Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria on top of watch list of countries facing humanitarian crisis
A malnourished child being weighed in Yemen
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The triple blows of long-running war, Covid-19 and climate change have combined to pitch record numbers of people into humanitarian emergency this year, an aid charity has warned.
The number of people in need of assistance worldwide has jumped by 40 per cent during 2020 and has tripled in the past decade, said International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Crises in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan continue to top the organisation s latest watch list of countries in dire straits, with globally some 235 million people now in need of help.