More than 900,000 people displaced as a result of ethnic conflict in Ethiopia

By Staff Reporter

<img alt = "Thousands of displaced people in Ethiopia" src = "http://www.ezega.com/userfiles/Thousands-displaced-Ethiopia.jpg" style = "float: left: height: 288px; margin: 4px; More than 900,000 people were displaced from border areas of Guji and Gedeo areas in southern Ethiopia as a result of violence that broke out along the regional border between Oromia and southern Ethiopia in mid-April 19659003] A rapid badessment in the Gedeo area reveals that more than 900,000 people have been displaced from the western Guji area (Oromia) to the area of Gedeo following the violence, said Monday to the press Mitiku Kbada, Commissioner for National Hazards and Disasters.No epidemic has been reported so far, full transmission, scabies and measles are risks potential for health due to the use of water from so dangerous urges, open defecation, overcrowded shelters and sharing of clothing. ] This recent wave of violence between the Gedeo and Guji communities began in the Kercha woreda (district) of Guji's western zone and then spread

Houses were burned, damaged, looted and destroyed. livelihoods destroyed.

The government, local community and civil society have been the first and most important stakeholders to date, with the support of a few partners. According to the Commissioner, the government should rehabilitate IDPs in a month as part of a joint operation with partners and regional governments.

"The first action would be to stop the violence and the abortion of potential conflicts with the support of the federal police, the members of the defense forces and the regional police that will be deployed shortly. The second reaction would be to provide badistance to displaced persons and the third would be to rehabilitate them in certain areas, particularly in the cities of Dilla and Bulu Bora, "added the Commissioner.