Forty percent increase in number of people needing aid worldwide

The United Nations has released its annual Global Humanitarian Overview and forecasts a near double increase in the number of people requiring aid in 2021. It comes in the wake of the pandemic which has disproportionately affected the most vulnerable countries.

Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, Source: AAP