NRC: World’s 10 ‘most neglected’ refugee crises all in Africa

A baby sleeps at the Tudikolela hospital, that is a beneficiary of the NGO ACF (Action contre la faim), in the community of Lipemba, on the outskirts of Mbuji-mayi, Kasai region, in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on May 1, 2021 [File: Arsene Mpiana/AFP]

The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned.

“With the all-absorbing war in Europe’s Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be pushed further into the shadows,” the aid group’s chief Jan Egeland said in a statement published Wednesday.