the gap between humanitarian need and humanitarian funding is also greater than ever
Hajj Ahmed, a resident of the Old-Omdurman neighbourhood, looks at his house after it was damaged by shells in Omdurman, SudanSudan, for the second year in a row, topped a 2025 watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee aid organisation on Wednesday, followed by Gaza and the West Bank, Myanmar, Syria and South Sudan.
The report said 305.1 million people around the world are in humanitarian need, up from 77.9 million in 2015, and that the 20 countries on the IRC watchlist account for 82% of them. Miliband described the numbers as “crushing.” The report said the humanitarian crisis in Sudan was the largest since records began and that the country accounts for 10% of all people in humanitarian need, despite being home to just 1% of the global population.
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