The list is drawn from Doctors without Borders, known as MSF, operational activities in close to 70 countries, where the organization’s medical teams witnessed some of the worst humanitarian conditions.
The other nine emergency areas are DR Congo, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Malnutrition, AIDS and Neglected Diseases.
MSF explains that medical humanitarian emergencies persisted throughout 2009 in several parts of Sudan.
It added that in addition to the ongoing crisis in Darfur, people in southern Sudan faced a deteriorating situation marked by escalating violence, disease outbreaks, and little or no access to health care.
MSF started publishing its annual The Top 10 Humanitarian Crises in 1998 to call the world’s attention to a devastating famine in southern Sudan that went largely unreported in the international media.