Ethiopia tops the list of countries with displaced people, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. (The Economist)
The Economist
After drought, famine and war, ethnic conflict now plagues Ethiopia
FOR MANY years Ethiopia struggled with drought and starvation, creating a population that moved frequently in search of food and water. Now it is violence that millions of Ethiopians are fleeing. Last year it topped the list of countries with displaced people, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), an NGO.
There are nearly 70m forcibly displaced people in the world. Refugees and asylum-seekers have rights and protections, but the roughly 40m who are “internally displaced” do not. Two-thirds are in African and Middle Eastern countries. And 2018 was another awful year, with an additional 10.8m newly-displaced people.
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‘Go and we die, stay and we starve’: the Ethiopians facing a deadly dilemma (The Guardian)
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