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<h1 class="reader-title">World's Most Under-Reported Crises Are
in Africa: CARE</h1>
January 28, 2020</div>
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<p>Of the top 10 most forgotten 2019 humanitarian crises
fuelled by the climate emergency nine were in
Africa, according to <a
href="https://insights.careinternational.org.uk/media/k2/attachments/CARE_Suffering-in-silence-2019.pdf"
target="_blank">a new analysis</a> entitled "Suffering
in Silence" and released Tuesday by CARE International.</p>
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<p>"In 2019, over 51 million people suffered in 10 crises
away from the public eye," the study said, in a
continent where temperatures are increasing at about
twice the global rate.</p>
<p>CARE examined 2.4 million online sources in five
languages and found out only 612 reports about the
humanitarian emergency in Madagascar for instance. The
island came in the first place of the countries ignored
by the international community, followed by the Central
African Republic and Zambia.</p>
<p>With 80 percent of the population in Madagascar living
from agriculture, the drought resulting from climate
change caused heavy damage to millions of people. The
food crisis led the country to have the fourth-highest
rate of malnutrition in the world and paved the way for
a measles epidemic that infected over 100,000.</p>
<p>The other under-reported emergencies are taking place
in Madagascar, Zambia, <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Drought-Threatens-Lives-of-15-Million-People-in-Africas-Horn-20190725-0015.html"
target="_blank">Eritrea</a>, Central African Republic,
Burundi, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and the countries of
the Lake Chad Basin, made up of Nigeria, Chad, and
Cameroon. North Korea is the only country on the list
that isn't in Africa.</p>
<p>Throughout last year, the suffering of millions of
people due to global warming in these southern countries
was ignored by thousands of media articles, at a time
when the climate activism led by Swedish teenager Greta
Thunberg dominated the headlines.</p>
<p>"The increased public attention for the global climate
crisis is encouraging, but we must ensure that the
conversation is not limited to the Global North,"
said the Head of Emergency Operations for CARE
International Sally Austin.</p>
<p>"It is shocking to see how little media reporting there
is about human suffering related to global warming in
the South, the lack of political action to address this
injustice, and solutions applied to ease the burden for
communities."</p>
<p>CARE's study noted that the climate crisis is
exacerbating political and economic instability across
the African continent.</p>
<p>"We're seeing increasing linkages between the effects
of man-made climate change and the longevity and
complexity of humanitarian crises," said Austin. </p>
<p>"From Madagascar to Lake Chad to North Korea, the
majority of crises ranked in our report are partly a
consequence of declining natural resources, increasing
extreme weather events and global warming more broadly."</p>
<p>The report also observed that three of the
least-covered crises in the world are also on the United
Nations' list of the least-funded international
emergencies.</p>
<p>Media outlets and humanitarian groups can help to close
the gaps by considering "reporting as a form of aid,"
CARE concluded.</p>
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