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The Norwegian Council for the Displaced (NRC) reported on Wednesday that the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world are in Africa. African countries become the most forgotten since 2021 according to the organization. In previous editions, countries from other continents were included, such as Venezuela and Honduras.
Every year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. The purpose is to focus on the plight of people whose suffering rarely makes international headlines. On this occasion, it was revealed that ten African nations grapple with the most neglected displacement crises in the world.
“That the world’s most neglected crises are all in Africa indicates the chronic failure of decision-makers, donors and the media to address conflict and human suffering on this continent,” said the Council’s Secretary-General, Jan Egeland, in a statement.
The Norwegian Council for the Displaced placed the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) first as the most ignored nation for the second year in a row.
The report notes that the inaction of the international community compounded its inability to protect citizens. Despite the efforts of MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northeast of the country has been continually plagued by intercommunal tensions and conflict, with a dramatic increase in attacks targeting displaced persons camps from November 2021.
“Now, 5.5 million people are displaced within the country and food insecurity has reached the highest level ever recorded, with a third of the population going hungry,” stressed one of the NRC members.
This annual list of neglected displacement crises is based on three criteria: lack of funding, lack of media attention, and lack of international political and diplomatic initiatives.
African countries, the most marginalized
Also on this list are the following nations: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi, and Ethiopia.
Burkina Faso, for example, has often suffered jihadist attacks since 2015, an insecurity that has caused the internal displacement of more than 1.85 million people, according to the latest data from the Burkina Faso government.
The report in Cameroon highlights that the crises left 4.4 million people in need of humanitarian support, almost half of whom had previously been uprooted from their homes. Causes such as violence and displacement increased levels of hunger, leaving almost 10 percent of the population food insecure by the end of the year.
Criticism of the media
According to the publication, coverage by the media of the problems that these countries are going through is limited.
Several of the reports underline the differences between the media impact of the war in Ukraine and the little media recognition that many other migration crises have had for years.
“The war in Ukraine has shown the immense gap between what is possible when the international community unites behind a crisis and the daily reality of millions of people suffering in silence within these crises on the African continent that the world has chosen. ignore,” Egeland stressed.
They also indicate that in several of these countries the lack of freedom of the press exacerbates the situation.
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