Dateline Africa Africa tops international crisis list

Abstract

1 NOVEMBER 2022- 28 FEBRUARY 2023

Eleven African countries are in the top 20 of the 2023 list of humanitarian crises in the world produced by the International Rescue Committee. Somalia is top of the list, with Ethiopia second, followed by the DRC (4th place), South Sudan (7th), Burkino Faso (8th). The top 20 include the following unranked neighbours, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Mali, Sudan and Nigeria. The annual listing focuses on “countries most at risk of new or worsening humanitarian crises in the year ahead”. Founded in 1933 in response to a call by Albert Einstein, the IRC works in more
than 40 countries.