Twenty-two humanitarian organisations polled by the Reuters Thomson foundation picked crises that got very little international media coverage all year. “They’re facing unimaginable horrors ... including killing and maiming, rape and abduction,” said Unni Krishnan, Plan’s global humanitarian director. Somalia’s protracted humanitarian crisis has steadily disappeared from global consciousness, even as conditions deteriorate in “one of the harshest environments on our planet”, the organisation said. Nearly five million people, including three million children, will need assistance next year due to climate shocks, conflict and collapsing social protection systems. KenyaNeighbouring Kenya is seeing a rapidly worsening climate-driven hunger crisis across arid and semi-arid lands.

Source: The Irish Times December 25, 2025 11:15 UTC