Sudan, DR Congo top world's most neglected crises: Norway aid group

Key points

• Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Colombia top the list of the world's most neglected displacement crises, a prominent Norwegian aid group said on Thursday (June 4, 2026), 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 nine million internally displaced people, the Norwegian Refugee Council 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.
• "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.