There are more than 40 active conflicts around the world at the moment.

While Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are well known, a new interactive maps reveals them all.

Created by non-profit organisation IRIN, it allows users to easily to key points of each conflict.

Click on a red circle to see more about the conflict 

The map is part of a series of articles from non-profit IRIN around the concept of forgotten wars. The map marks each conflict with a red dot. It is sized to represent how long the battle has been going on, with the larger dots representing those that have lasted the longest.

‘Many of the conflicts  don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and they may not have the same geopolitical or economic importance,’ says the IRIN.

‘But the toll of decades-long conflicts – from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara – is just as devastating for the people who live there.’

The map is part of a series of articles from IRIN around the concept of forgotten wars.

It examines the root causes, human cost and potential for peace of conflicts in Myanmar, Casamance, South Kordofan, southern Thailand, and Mindanao in the Philippines.

The map marks each conflict with a red dot.

It is sized to represent how long the battle has been going on,  with the larger dots representing those that have lasted the longest.

To see more about each conflict, click on the dot.

This brings up a fact box explaining the nature of the conflict, when it began and how many deaths have resulted from it.

One of the conflicts covered is in the Blue Nile southern frontier of Sudan, where war has raged for more than 60 years. Pictured, Sudanese troops that are prepared to rescue the Blue Nile and Kordofan regions under rebel’s control in 2014

‘The number of people affected by humanitarian crises has almost doubled over the past decade,’ IRIN says.

‘Climate change, population growth, volatile markets, water scarcity, sectarianism and the mushrooming of armed groups and extremists are pushing more and more communities to the edge.’

One of the conflicts covered is in the Blue Nile southern frontier of Sudan, where war has raged for more than 60 years.

Also referred to by some media as the Third Sudanese Civil War, it is an an ongoing armed conflict in the Sudanese southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the Army of Sudan (SAF) and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), a northern affiliate of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in South Sudan.

‘The fight is a continuation of the struggle that birthed the world’s newest nation, an independent South Sudan, in 2011,’ IRIN says.

The map is designed to raise awareness of the ‘forgotten conflicts’ around the world

‘Characterised by mass displacement and severe hunger, the humanitarian crisis has been compounded by the evacuation of all aid organisations.

‘More than 10 peace deals have fizzled since the conflict re-ignited only a few months after South Sudan became independent.

‘Its frontlines are largely stagnant.’

The sites covers every ongoing conflict around the world, from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara. Pictured, North Korean soldiers march and shout slogans during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country’s founding father, Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea April 15, 2017.

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