Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Colombia top the list of the world's most neglected displacement crises, a prominent Norwegian aid group said on Thursday, noting that nationalism and rearmament campaigns grabbed attention in wealthy countries.
Sudan, which since 2023 has been ravaged by a bloody conflict between two rival generals competing for power, has more than 9 million internally displaced people, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a statement.
A further four million Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries and nearly 19.5 million people there are also suffering from hunger, the NRC said in its annual Neglected Displacement Crises Report.
"It is incomprehensible that a displacement crisis of similar proportions to the crises in Syria and Ukraine at their peak can continue to worsen almost unnoticed," NRC chief Jan Egeland said.
"Just as needs in Sudan skyrocketed last year and famine kept spreading, the funding was cut," he added.
