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Ethiopia: Ethnic Violence Fuels Cycles of Displacement in Ethiopia
MSF, 15 July 2019
Thousands of people have shuttled back and forth between Southern Ethiopia's Gedeo and Guji areas over the past 15 months following an outbreak of ethnic violence in April 2018 and… Read more »
Violence Fuels Cycles of Displacement in Ethiopia
Over the past 15 months, Desalegn, his wife, and their five children have lived in a dozen different places. After their own home in western Guji, in Ethiopia's Oromia region, was burned to the ground, they sought shelter with a neighbour. When that neighbour asked them to leave, they went to stay with Desalegn's in-laws, but it was not long before they had to move on again, writes MSF.
"What I earn isn’t enough to sustain the whole family," says Desalegn. "We don’t have enough food to go around."
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