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ADDIS ABABA, July 12 (Xinhua) – More than 800,000 people in southern Ethiopia are forcibly displaced as a result of intercommunal clashes, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday (ICRC). "This crisis is completely ignored by the international community and the consequences of this negligence could be disastrous," said Shirin Hanafieh, head of the ICRC evaluation team, quoted by the ICRC on Thursday.
"If humanitarian aid is not rapidly increased Hanafieh adds that the ICRC, along with the Ethiopian Red Cross, visited the district of Kochere, in the Gedeo area, in the south of Ethiopia, one of the most drought-affected areas, where large numbers of people have been displaced by clashes in the Gedeo and West Guji areas.
"People are struggling to live in everything that resembles basic dignity, "Hanafieh said, people are currently crammed into schools, office buildings and churches, sleeping on the floor without carpets or blankets.
The ICRC and the Society Ethiopian Red Cross also revealed that as part of their response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, 100,000 people would be rescued in Kochere district, Gedeo district.
"This will involve providing medicines and products from health at local clinics as well as water tanks, tarpaulins and other efforts to improve the quality of water and sanitation facilities, the ICRC said Thursday. zones is the latest resurgence of inter-communal violence in Ethiopia on land that has caused widespread displacement.
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