The leader of the IRC's COVID-19 response explains how we are fighting the virus and what's at risk for the three countries he's most worried about.

Conflict is raging between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim minority groups in Rakhine, one of Myanmar's poorest states. In 2012 many Muslims, including Rohingya, were attacked by their neighbours and forced into government camps as their villages were destroyed. The latest outbreak of violence on Aug. 25 pushed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh. That number could soon reach 1 million as the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crisis continues.

Alima fled her home of seven decades just two days before ISIS swept through her village near Mosul in 2014. She left with just her identity papers. Alima went home recently, hoping to find some belongings or mementos. Instead, she found armed men occupying her house. “It is hard to live 70 years in a place and then someone says ‘this place does not belong to you anymore.’”