Ethiopia: Humanitarian Situation Worsens As Over 800,000 Displaced People Face Cold and Heavy Rains in Ethiopia

Dilla — Over 800,000 internally displaced persons are living without adequate shelter and safe sanitation in Ethiopia, resulting in a worsening humanitarian situation further exacerbated by cold, wet weather brought on by the rainy season.

Clashes last month between communities along the border of two Ethiopian regions - Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) and Oromia Region - forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

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