The under-reported crises of 2023

For eight years now Care International has commissioned media analysis into the least reported humanitarian crises of the year. The 2023 report is called Breaking the Silence, and for the second year in a row all of the top ten are in Africa. As the Kenyan journalist Zelipha Kirobi says, “Africa is barely visible in the international media.”

To qualify as a humanitarian crisis, over a million people have to be affected by conflict or natural disaster. Many such stories receive plenty of cover...