Violence and conflict has displaced more people in Ethiopia than anywhere else in the world this yearborkenaSeptember 12,2019Figures from Geneva based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) show that Ethiopia has more internally displaced people due to conflict and violence than war-torn Syria and Yemen based on analysis done for the first six months of the year 2018. Data released by the center shows that 5.2 million people are internally displaced in the space of six months between January and June 2018. The number of Internally Displaced People in Ethiopia during the period is 1.4 million while the figure for Syria is for the same period is only 1.2 million. The source also added that “inter-communal” violence along the Oromo and Somali regions of Ethiopia has raised the number of IDPs during the first six months of 2018. In July 2018, Ethiopian government decided to deploy members of the defense force to conflict areas including in Somali region of Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News September 12, 2018 23:37 UTC