Myanmar Sudan remains number one on the 2025 crisis watch list

Sudan will continue to top the list of humanitarian crisis countries in the coming year. According to the annual "Emergency Watchlist" of 20 countries published by the aid organization International Rescue Committee (IRC), Sudan is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis of all time and at the same time the biggest displacement crisis worldwide. The African country with its 50 million inhabitants is heading for a devastating humanitarian collapse in 2025.

With regard to the Gaza Strip, the danger of famine remains in 2025.

According to the list, the five biggest crises are in the following countries and regions: Sudan, the occupied Palestinian territories, Myanmar as well as Syria and South Sudan.

According to the report, 305 million people worldwide are dependent on humanitarian aid. Around 82 percent of these people live in countries on the list, although they only make up eleven percent of the world's population. 77 percent of displaced people worldwide are due to crises in countries on the watch list and more than 30 percent of people living in extreme poverty are at home in the 20 countries listed.

"The concentration of extreme poverty is remarkable," said IRC President David Miliband. "The world is splitting into two camps: people are born in fragile conflict countries or have opportunities in stable states." This trend must be broken for moral and strategic reasons. On the one hand, it is important to help the weakest. "For strategic reasons, it is important to remember that problems may start in Sudan or Syria, but they don't stay there: Instability spreads."