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ADDIS ABABA, July 20 (Xinhua) – Violent clashes between communities on the border of Ethiopia's largest Oromia regional state and Southern region has forced at least 970,000 people to flee their homes since April, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday.
According to IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) badessments, 822,187 people in Gedeo area of Southern region and at least 147,040 people in West Guji area of Oromia region are displaced due to the violent inter-communal clashes. [19659002] Most of the displaced are local communities, while the sites of these schools, the sites and the disused or unfinished buildings, the IOM revealed.
"The buildings in the collective sites are not fit for human habitation and are extremely overcrowded, forcing many people to sleep outside on dirt, rarely with anything but a single sheet of tarpaulin shielding them from the rain, "IOM's statement read. [19659002] DTM, a 1.7 million internally displaced persons in Ethiopia, including 1.2 million displaced by conflict and 536,321 due to climate change.
IOM said it has been scaling
A UN Secretary-General of the United Nations and the United States of America General Antonio Guterres said this month that nearly 1 million people are displaced and require urgent help, especially during this rainy season.
The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) also expects this month to be released 15 million US dollars to urgently scale up humanitarian badistance to people affected by escalating inter-communal violence in Ethiopia.
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