Wars, weather and waning aid: Africa facing its worst humanitarian crisis

Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, serves wild boiled leaves for food to orphaned children at the Bruam IDP Camp in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan on June 22, 2024.

Photo credit: Reuters

African conflicts were already churning out massive humanitarian crises: 35 million displaced people and over 60,000 killed from these wars in 2024, for example.

But now multiple agencies say a combination of wars, climate disasters and disease outbreaks are hurting the people more amid funding shortage.