The Central African Republic was the world’s least-covered humanitarian crisis of 2025

L2Who’s affected

More than 2.4 million people in the Central African Republic need humanitarian aid, and one in five Central Africans is displaced.

L3Why it’s quiet

CARE’s media analysis (via Meltwater, about five million online articles from roughly 345,000 outlets, Jan–Sep 2025) found nearly half of all coverage of humanitarian emergencies focused on Gaza alone, leaving crises affecting around 43 million people largely invisible.

L4Deeper impact

The other least-covered crises were Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Honduras, North Korea, Angola, Burundi, Zimbabwe and Madagascar — eight of the ten in Africa, with climate change named as a common accelerator.

L5Full context

The Central African Republic has appeared in every edition of CARE’s report since it began in 2016.

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