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Growing global disorder threatens to deepen humanitarian crises around the world, with Sudan and Palestine facing the greatest risk of all, according to a new report.<\/p>\n
The pair once again topped the International Rescue Committee\u2019s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist, the 2026 version of which was released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The report on the world\u2019s top 20 crises warns that diverging trends of surging catastrophe and shrinking funding signal the advent of a \u201cnew world disorder\u201d replacing the post-World War II rules-based order.<\/p>\n \u201cDisorder begets disorder,\u201d said IRC president David Miliband. \u201cThis year\u2019s Watchlist is a testament to misery but also a warning: without urgent action from those with power to make a difference, 2026 risks becoming the most dangerous year yet.\u201d<\/p>\n The report said the new state of global disorder was characterised by \u201cintensifying geopolitical rivalries, shifting alliances, and transactional deal-making\u201d, which had conspired to create \u201ca cascade of crises and eroding support for the world\u2019s most vulnerable\u201d.<\/p>\n A \u201csurge of vetoes\u201d at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has stalled responses in Sudan and Palestine, it points out.<\/p>\n Russia has regularly stood in the way of a ceasefire in Sudan, while the United States repeatedly vetoed a Gaza truce before drafting a peace plan with the backing of regional actors earlier this year.<\/p>\n The 20 countries on the watchlist, which also include South Sudan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, make up only 12 percent of the world\u2019s population, but account for 89 percent of the nearly 300 million people around the globe that need humanitarian aid, reads the report.<\/p>\n Highlighting the scale of the crisis, it notes that 117 million people are forcibly displaced and 40 million face life-threatening levels of \u201csevere hunger\u201d, yet funding has shrunk by 50 percent.<\/p>\n That has created a funding gap that leaves humanitarian responders unable to keep pace with needs.<\/p>\n Sudan, ravaged by nearly three years of fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed the list for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n The IRC highlights the role of \u201cregional backers\u201d complicit in a war that it says has killed 150,000 people and displaced more than 12 million. Some 33 million people need humanitarian aid, with 207,000 facing \u201ccatastrophic\u201d food shortages.<\/p>\n \u201cLarge quantities of gold flow out of the country, while weapons move in the opposite direction,\u201d says the report, which did not name the \u201cbackers\u201d.<\/p>\n The United Arab Emirates is widely accused of backing the RSF, a claim the Gulf country denies.<\/p>\n Palestine, facing the twin crises of Israel\u2019s onslaught in Gaza, which has killed more than 70,000 people and created a humanitarian catastrophe, and escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank, ranked second for the third year running.<\/p>\n The IRC report said there was \u201climited hope\u201d that \u201cexternal pressure\u201d would \u201creduce the intensity of conflict\u201d in Gaza, where authorities say Israel has carried out nearly 800 attacks, killing about 400 people, since a ceasefire deal reached in October under the US-led peace plan, which was backed by the UNSC.<\/p>\n Even if conflict in Gaza remains at \u201clower levels\u201d, the IRC said, \u201ccivilians will face intense suffering and a struggle for survival amid what remains of Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n In late 2025, the report said 641,000 people were experiencing \u201cfamine or catastrophic food insecurity\u201d in the enclave, and the situation is likely to persist.<\/p>\n \u201cTight restrictions and militarized delivery will leave aid access limited,\u201d it said, referring to Israel\u2019s choking of aid supplies entering the enclave.<\/p>\n Overall, the report said, impunity has been \u201cenabled on a dangerous scale\u201d. The past year has turned out to be the \u201cdeadliest\u201d for humanitarians, referring to attacks on schools, hospitals and other essential infrastructure in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Growing global disorder threatens to deepen humanitarian crises around the world, with Sudan and Palestine facing the greatest risk of all, according to a new report. The pair once again topped the International Rescue Committee\u2019s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist, the 2026 version of which was released on Tuesday. 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