Tuesday May 22, 2018
Howa sits with her daughter outside their shelter in the Harisso internally displaced persons (IDP) site, Siti Zone, Somali region. PHOTO: Oxfam
Addis Ababa, May 22 (Prensa Latina) At
least 1.613 436 people are considered internally displaced in Ethiopia,
according to the report released today by the news.
According to The Ethiopian Herald, climatic, conflict factors and of
other types contribute in that sense in 950 places throughout this
nation of the so-called African horn.
However, the
aforementioned newspaper, which reported statements about the UN Office
of Humanitarian Affairs in Addis Ababa, made it clear that 66 percent of
these people were removed from their homes due to social tensions.
The most affected areas are the states of Somalia and Oromia, two of
the largest in the country, where confrontations along the border caused
the displacement of 710 662 residents.
Strong clashes in the
border regions last September erupted into ethnic violence, which left
dozens dead and hundreds of thousands of citizens had to leave the
original territories.
The dispute between Ethiopian Oromans and
Somalis is latent for almost two decades, and while a referendum in
October 2004 was supposed to demarcate borders, implementation stalled
since both sides accused each other of non-compliance.