Crises like drought in Namibia receive little attention in the media, criticizes the aid organization Care. 8 of the 10 countries that receive little attention are in Africa.
Crises shake the world – what some Europeans have noticed since the climate crisis, Putin’s war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s second US presidency is not new knowledge for other countries and regions. “Forgotten Crises” is the title of one Reports from the international aid organization Carewhich has been listing annually for a decade which crises worldwide receive the least media attention.
According to the report, the least amount was last year Central African Republic reported. A civil war has been raging there for around 15 years. According to the report, of the 5.5 million inhabitants, around 2.4 million, almost half of the people are dependent on humanitarian aid. But the crises in the report are not just about wars. In second place is Namibia, where the people under the worst drought have been suffering for 100 years. 1.3 million people live without food security.
“The longer a crisis lasts and the less it is characterized by acute military escalations, the faster it disappears from public awareness – with serious consequences for attention, financing and help for the people affected,” Care Deutschland told taz. “What is not reported is not seen, does not result in actions or decisions.”
For its study, Care evaluated reporting on humanitarian crises in almost 350,000 online media around the world in five languages. As a result, 1,532 online articles reported on the crisis in the Central African Republic in 2025.
Africa is particularly neglected
The crises in African countries received particularly little attention, according to the Care report. Of the ten crises that received the least media coverage, eight were on the African continent. The two non-African states are Honduras and North Korea.
African countries made up the majority of the Care Report list in each of the ten years. Every year, the Central African Republic was also among the ten countries that the media reported the least about in the world.
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