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The Central Sahel: How conflict and climate change drive crisis
Learn how conflict and climate change interact to form a compounded crisis in the Central Sahel, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions.
- Article
- September 27, 2023
Helping the forgotten children of a forgotten conflict
The International Rescue Committee helps children who, like Anita and her brothers, have suffered from trauma in Congo’s conflict.
- Article
- May 24, 2016
What happens when climate change and conflict collide?
Discover how climate change and conflict intersect to drive crises in vulnerable regions and how the IRC supports impacted communities.
- Article
- November 26, 2024
Crisis in Ethiopia: New conflict threatens the region
Ethiopia features on the IRC's annual Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row but rises into the top five for the first time due to escalating conflict in Tigray. Here's what you need to know.
- Article
- September 14, 2022
Mali
The International Rescue Committee provides lifesaving assistance to Malians affected by conflict and facing food shortages in the West African nation.
- Country
Protecting and aiding civilians in conflict
In conflicts around the world, the targeting of civilians and their homes, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure has become routine. People are cut off from food, water and lifesaving assistance. The IRC advocates with global leaders for actions that uphold the laws of war, protect civilians in conflict, hold violators to account and allow humanitarian organizations to have greater access to people in need.
- Resource
- October 12, 2020
Ethiopia
The International Rescue Committee provides a wide range of assistance for refugees, displaced persons and vulnerable Ethiopian communities as the country faces conflict, regional instability, climate change and food insecurity as a lingering effect of subsequent droughts.
- Country
Crisis in Yemen: Unrelenting conflict and risk of famine
Here are five reasons the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Yemen as the country most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe in 2021.
- Article
- September 28, 2022
Sudan Crisis Report: One Year of Conflict
April 2024 marks one year since fighting broke out between rival factions of Sudan’s security force, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), engulfing Sudan in conflict. Read our report here.
- Report
- April 12, 2024
Omicron: Triple threat of COVID, conflict, climate change in Africa
As new COVID-19 variants such as Omicron emerge, it’s more important than ever that world leaders address COVID, conflict and climate change in Africa.
- Article
- June 27, 2022