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The IRC conducted a multi-sector needs assessment in 2024, covering the sectors of Protection, Health, Education and Economic Wellbeing, to identify key needs to support humanitarian program design in the coming period. Findings show that humanitarian needs are at an all time high, particularly impacted by shifts in the context in 2023, including the earthquake in Turkiye and the highest levels of violence seen across northern Syria since 2020. Millions of individuals continue to be unable to meet their basic needs.

Even before the recent clashes, Sudan was facing extreme weather shocks, social and political unrest and rising food prices.

As the war has entered its fourteenth year, mental health conditions continue to deteriorate in refugee camps in northeast Syria.