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Clashes between communities on the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's South (SNNPR) and Oromia border forced some 970,000 people to flee their homes since April 2018, most of them displaced in June. The woreda (district) level badessments conducted by the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams revealed that 822,187 people are displaced in the Gedeo area (SNNPR area) and at least 147 040 in the western region of Oromia. Due to security issues and access issues, IOM DTM teams were able to badess only internal displacement in four of the six West Guji woredas where people are displaced.
In both areas, the majority of the displaced population is hosted by local communities (Gedeo: 514,446, Western Guji: 84,681), while the rest are housed in collective sites (Gedeo: 307,741 , West Guji: 62.359) government properties, spontaneous sites and abandoned or unfinished buildings.
The buildings of collective sites are generally not suitable for human habitation and are extremely overcrowded – forcing many people to sleep outside on the earth, rarely with a single tarp that protects them from the rain.
Mujib is home to a small four-by-five-meter land area that it shares with 26 other displaced people, many of whom are its former neighbors. "This place is very cold, we do not have enough food and our children are not well fed," said Mujib, whose eight members include his mother, brothers, wife and two years. "I do not know what will be the impact of all this on the lives of our children, which is hard to imagine," he added.
Assessments identified 80 collective sites and 103 host communities. Gedeo and 21 collective sites and 60 West Guji host communities indicated that food was the main need in both areas, in addition to major shelter needs and access to landfills. safe sanitary facilities. travel sites in both areas are currently underway, which will produce more qualitative data on the number of displaced persons and their needs.
The nationwide IOM Roundtable Round 11, conducted in May and June 2018, identified 1,776,685 internally displaced persons in Ethiopia, of whom 1,204,577 are displaced due to severe mental health problems. conflict and 536,321 due to climate change.
Since June, IOM has intensified its response to Gedeo and West Guji. Over the past two weeks, in addition to the badessments, IOM has built more than 190 latrines out of a total of 263, four communal shelters of some 40 kitchens, two collective kitchens as well as workshops with the On-site government management.
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