We must act quickly to prevent famine in Afghanistan, where 3.1 million children are already at risk of acute malnutrition.

After a peace agreement failed to unite South Sudan last July, fighting quickly spread to previously unaffected areas. That’s when the war forced Angelina and her children to flee into the swamps, where food and clean water were scarce. 

Congo is now in its fourth decade of a major humanitarian crisis due to widespread violence, and now the latest volcanic eruption near Goma.

Here are five reasons the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist ranked Afghanistan as the country most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2022.