Yemen tops the IRC’s annual Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row: a consequence of over five years of major armed conflict and severe underfunding that has pushed the world’s largest humanitarian crisis to new lows in 2020 and left the humanitarian response on the brink of collapse.

The main reason that Niger remains on the Watchlist for the third year in a row is the intensifying armed conflict that now affects two distinct parts of the country, disrupting livelihoods, forcing people to leave their homes, and restricting humanitarian access.

The IRC's 2021 Emergency Watchlist reveals that the world is facing both unprecedented humanitarian emergencies as well as a political crisis of inaction and global retreat from humanitarian obligations.