More than 14 million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa alone. Famines are not a new phenomenon, but they are preventable. It’s time to take a closer look at what you think you know about famine.

COVID-19 is surging across Yemen, even as an ongoing cholera outbreak worsens, food and water shortages increase, and civilians are being bombed. Here are eight facts about the situation on the ground.

The latest increase in fighting in Afghanistan has put record numbers of civilians in danger. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of the violence.

Fighting in Tripoli, the capital city of Libya, has been escalating. The IRC is on the ground assisting people caught in the clashes.

An IRC poll shows Americans are united in their desire to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen, which is experiencing the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

Some 100 people are reported dead and hundreds more injured in a chemical weapons attack on Tuesday in Syria’s northern Idlib province. Doctors at an IRC-supported hospital in the city of Idlib were able to save the lives of 10 people caught in the attack. 

This week the war in Yemen enters its fourth year. What makes this conflict so heartbreaking is its cruelty, the warring factions deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Some 22 million people, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance.

Despite ceasefire talks and “de-escalation” areas, peace has not broken out in Syria. Civilians across the country remain in grave danger, and millions have been forced to flee their homes. IRC aid workers report from four Syrian conflict zones.

World-renowned musician Femi Kuti recently traveled to northeastern Nigeria to meet with people displaced from areas ravaged for years by Boko Haram and see the International Rescue Committee's crisis response in action.