itarian assistance in 2021.3 The effects of COVID-19, “We are only as strong as the weakest health system in The result was a list of 45 crises that were analyzed and The 10 most under-reported coupled with the growing impacts of climate change our interconnected world.”7 ranked by the number of online news articles mention- humanitarian crises of 2020 4 have increased the number of people in need. [...] Many younger and the central west; and the return of severe drought able-bodied people have moved to other parts of the in the south.71 While the measles epidemic of 2019 is South country, leaving more vulnerable groups behind. [...] The new transitional government has renewed hopes for peace,110 but years of conflict and vi-olence in the central and northern areas have displaced thousands of people and livestock, and in the rural areas people – 25 percent of the of the south, where population density is highest, nine households – are food insecure out of ten people live below the poverty line.111 12 The 10 most under-reported. [...] All of CARE’s programs aim to strengthen the ports of grain,135 while its neighbor, Namibia, declared a In 2020, the UN estimated that about 4.6 million people resourcefulness of the people of Papua New Guinea state of emergency.136 in PNG (more than half of its population) are in need and to increase women’s opportunities to participate million of humanitarian assistance.117 Only 46 percent of th. [...] If funding to continue to deliver lifesaving services to In the face of the terrible times we’re in, people are anything has been made clear by the pandemic, it is the most vulnerable and to women and girls.
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