4. Security
The 2024 risk map named South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia as the most dangerous countries in the world.
South Sudan has been mired in conflicts – with tensions between ‘the government, opposing forces, and their respective allied militias’ escalating and leading to ‘the deaths, injuries, and displacement of thousands of civilians’, as per Human Rights Watch.
The US Department of State has warned US citizens to not travel to Afghanistan under any circumstances ‘due to terrorism, risk of wrongful detention, kidnapping and crime’.
There is a war ongoing in Syria and while Libya’s civil war ended in 2020, there are still conflicts happening, with security situations being ‘fragile’ and ‘intense fighting and clashes without warning’, as per gov.co.uk.
