"Growing global disorder threatens to deepen humanitarian crises around the world, with Sudan and Palestine facing the greatest risk of all, according to a new report. The pair once again topped the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Emergency Watchlist, the 2026 version of which was released on Tuesday. The report on the world's top 20 crises warns that diverging trends of surging catastrophe and shrinking funding signal the advent of a new world disorder replacing the post-World War II rules-based order."
"The 20 countries on the watchlist, which also include South Sudan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, make up only 12 percent of the world's population, but account for 89 percent of the nearly 300 million people around the globe that need humanitarian aid, reads the report. Highlighting the scale of the crisis, it notes that 117 million people are forcibly displaced and 40 million face life-threatening levels of severe hunger, yet funding has shrunk by 50 percent."
Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, shifting alliances, and transactional deal-making have created a new state of global disorder that deepens humanitarian crises. Sudan and Palestine face the highest risk as surges of United Nations Security Council vetoes have stalled responses and blocked ceasefires. Russia has often impeded a Sudanese ceasefire while the United States vetoed a Gaza truce before pursuing a peace plan with regional partners. Twenty crises on the watchlist account for 89 percent of nearly 300 million people needing aid, despite representing only 12 percent of the global population. An estimated 117 million are forcibly displaced, 40 million face severe hunger, and funding has fallen by 50 percent.
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