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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022

London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.

Contains many illustrations

"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops are failing, livestock are dying. Women and girls are disproportionately affected, with 150 million more women than men going hungry in 2021 around the world. Yet media attention on countries such as Malawi, Zambia and Chad fall into the shadows of the news headlines. This year, there have been more than fifty times the number of media articles written about the new iPhone 14 (95,118) than the millions of people in need of life-saving humanitarian aid right now due to extreme drought in Angola (1,847) – the crisis which received the least media attention in 2022." (Introduction, page 3)
1 Angola: Drought, hunger and displacement, 6
2 Malawi: Cyclones, cholera and hunger, 8
3 Central African Republic: Conflict, violence and climate crisis, 9
4 Zambia: Poverty, HIV and violence, 10
5 Chad: Unrest and floods, 12
6 Burundi: Between natural disaster and economic crisis, 13
7 Zimbabwe: Between droughts and flash floods, 16
8 Mali: Hunger, conflict and climate crisis, 17
9 Cameroon: From crisis to crisis, 20
10 Niger: Crisis in the heart of the Sahel, 21
Recommendations: What can we do? 23