Conflict and climate change . . . These will be two of the most critical driving forces behind humanitarian emergencies over the next year and into the foreseeable future, even if their effects are indirect.
The countries and regions on the 2019 Watch List include:
- Yemen: the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe
- Are superstorms the new normal?
- A legacy of suffering in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Undermining the Palestinian health system in East Jerusalem
- Venezuela fuels a regional crisis
- A regional crisis deteriorates in the Lake Chad Basin
- The shrinking humanitarian space
