Ethiopia maintained an unenviable record of being the global leader in internally displaced persons driven out of their places of residence due to conflicts across the country. Ethiopia has close to three million people displced by violent conflicts according to the latest results from the Global Report on Internal Displacement, GRID. The report released last week read in part: “Ethiopia had the highest figure, with 2.9 million new displacements, a considerable increase that influenced global trends. The entire stretch of its common border with the Somali region is marked as an area most affected by the conflict. Urban centres were also affected, including Addis Ababa and Jijiga, the capital of the Somali region.

Source: Ethiopian News May 12, 2019 15:00 UTC