Millions are displaced by conflict, persecution and disasters – but their stories are too often overlooked by the media.
Neglected displacement crises
How many articles have you seen about the world’s most neglected displacement crisis — in Cameroon? Have you heard about the crisis in Ethiopia, where conflict and climate shocks left over 10 million people in need of food assistance in 2024? Did you know that almost 600,000 people were displaced by armed conflict and disasters in Mozambique at the end of 2024?
The lack of headlines reflects a lack of political will. While needs escalate, international efforts to address the root causes of these crises stall or are simply abandoned. And it’s much harder for humanitarian organisations, like the Norwegian Refugee Council, to attract funding to support those in need.
Millions of displaced people remain unseen, unsupported, and increasingly unreachable.
We’re here to tell you about the displacement crises no-one talks about.
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How many articles have you seen about the world’s most neglected displacement crisis — in Cameroon? Have you heard about the crisis in Ethiopia, where conflict and climate shocks left over 10 million people in need of food assistance in 2024? Did you know that almost 600,000 people were displaced by armed conflict and disasters in Mozambique at the end of 2024?
The lack of headlines reflects a lack of political will. While needs escalate, international efforts to address the root causes of these crises stall or are simply abandoned. And it’s much harder for humanitarian organisations, like the Norwegian Refugee Council, to attract funding to support those in need.
Millions of displaced people remain unseen, unsupported, and increasingly unreachable.
We’re here to tell you about the displacement crises no-one talks about.
Latest news
DR Congo: Returns offer some hope
Jan Egeland spoke to German newspaper FAZ following his visit in April. “According to recent estimates, the heavy fighting in January displaced an additional 1.2 million people within eastern Congo. But now we are also experiencing one of the largest return movements in the world, even though the conflict continues to rage in other parts of eastern Congo. Around 1.8 million people have returned to their homes.”
Ethiopia: Families displaced by earthquakes
The area manager for NRC, Barnabas Asura, spoke to the Irish Times about the cash support programme that NRC is providing to vulnerable households displaced by the earthquake. The article states, “so far 580 households displaced by the earthquake have received the payment, but Asura says the Norwegian Refugee Council has identified 4,735 households in extreme need of cash assistance based on criteria including malnourishment of children, number of elders and household size.”
Somalia: Forced evictions
More than 2,000 internally displaced families in Mogadishu are facing forced eviction by armed police linked to former Al-Shabaab militants, according to The Horn Observer. NRC’s Abdulkadir Mohamed stressed that such displacements remain a critical protection concern: "Internally displaced people usually live in privately owned settlements without land tenure documents. This has resulted in a number of forced evictions."
Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council publishes a report 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. People who receive little or no assistance, and who live amid crises that never become the centre of attention for international diplomacy efforts.
MethodologyThe list of ten countries is compiled using a methodology based on the key characteristics of neglect, namely: funding coverage, media attention and political will. Read more about our methodology here. |
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