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Geneva (AFP) – Humanitarian organizations on Friday expressed concern over a displacement crisis in southern Ethiopia, warning that hundreds of thousands of people fleeing inter-communal violence were living in places. unfit for human habitation ". According to the UN humanitarian agency, more than 800,000 people have fled violence along the border between Oromia and Somali in the south-east of the country last month.
After the first wave of fighting in the region The United Nations Migration Agency, IOM, said Friday that most displaced people had been displaced. "The situation is extremely blurred," said the US press agency, Vanessa Huguenin. newly displaced persons were living without adequate shelter or safe sanitation and warned that the situation was exacerbated by the beginning of the rainy season
"Walking for days to find security, Displaced populations have little or no Other possessions than the clothes they left, neither food nor money, "IOM said in a statement.
Those who have recently fled their homes already reach nearly 1.8 million people The Ethiopian government and aid organizations are fighting to provide help and services to the people gathered in the many displacement sites of the western Guji area of Oromia and the Gedeo area of the SNNPR
. IDPs lodged with relatives or sought refuge in schools, government buildings or abandoned factories.
"Thousands of people are crammed into overcrowded collective centers and unfit for human habitation". with nothing more than a tarp to protect them from the cold and the rain. "
The International Committee of the Red Cross also expressed concern this week that intercommunal clashes" This crisis is completely off the screen of the international community and the consequences of this negligence could be disastrous ", said Shirin Hanafieh, head of the ICRC's evaluation team, in a statement. "If humanitarian aid is not rapidly increased, people will be exposed to malnutrition and malnutrition. epidemics, especially in the approach of the rainy season, "she said, warning that" people have trouble living dignity.
Amnesty International accused the Ethiopian government last month of not doing enough to prevent the escalation of ethnic violence.
Ethiopia is divided into ethnically demarcated federal regions. In recent months, inter-communal movements have become commonplace, particularly in Oromia, the largest region in the country and with its largest ethnic group, the Oromo.
Last year, ethnic violence erupted along the Oromia's common border with neighboring Somalia left hundreds of dead and at least 1.1 million displaced people, according to UN figures.
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