Sudan is facing one of the largest food crises today, but these mothers are determined to protect their children’s futures.

The US and Europe were key players in the creation of the Refugee Convention 70 years ago - now is the time for these same actors to reinvigorate it.

The IRC's new report, Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel, highlights the ways that long-term economic underdevelopment and political marginalisation are making communities in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger more vulnerable to the effects of both the climate crisis and protracted armed conflict.  

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.

Eight-year-old Fatima has a dream: to become a doctor, so she can help people in her community.

Lalla, a 40-year old mother to six, was forced to flee with her family when conflict broke out. Now living on the outskirts of Meneka, a town in the southeast of Mali, she talks about what she's gone through, how the IRC is helping, and why she never fails to smile.

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