2.9 Million People Displaced in Ethiopia, Tops WorldMay 11, 2019 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopia is home to the highest number of conflict-related internally displace people (IDP) in the world, according to a new report by Internal Displacement Monitoring Center’s (IDMC) 2019 Global report. According to the report, Ethiopia has 2.9 million internally displaced people due to conflicts and violence, higher than in Syria and Somalia. "Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Syria accounted for more than half of the global figure." “Against a backdrop of important and many positive political changes, 2.9 million new displacements associated with conflict were recorded in Ethiopia, the highest figure in the world and four times as many as in 2017,” reads the report. "Weather-related hazards, particularly storms, accounted for the majority of the new displacement associated with disasters, triggering 17.2 million displacements in 2018.

Source: Ethiopian News May 11, 2019 20:48 UTC