The United Nations and Ethiopia’s government say more than 800,000 people have fled their homes due to violence.
These people fled their homes in the southern Ethiopia since June and are in need of food and other aid.
A report by the U.N on Wednesday said the violence was sparked by ethnic and inter-communal clashes between Gedeo and West Guji areas, south of Addis Ababa.
The new prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed this year visited some of the troubled regions in the country.
It was in an attempt to help reduce tension in those areas and stop the displacement of thousands.
Last year violence along the border of the Horn of Africa country’s Somali and Oromiya provinces displaced nearly one million people.
Hundreds were also killed by security forces. The violence was triggered by land rights, fuelled by a sense of political and economic marginalisation among the young.
Both regions had blamed each other for the unrest.
Source: Africafeeds.com
