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- Maleda Times
ETHIOPIA
More people have been internally displaced in East Africa this year than in any region, new figures from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center show.REFUGEESWORLD
By Bryan Bowman Last updated Sep 12, 2018
More people have been internally displaced in East Africa this year than in any region, new figures from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center show.
The most affected country has been Ethiopia, where 1.4 million people were uprooted by violence between January and June – about 200,000 more than in Syria – as intense fighting has broken out in country’s Southern regions.
The number of new displacements increased sharply from last year when just 213,000 people were reported displaced through June.
Neighboring Somalia and South Sudan have also seen significant numbers of internal displacement this year due to violence as the civil war continues to rage on in those countries.
Natural disasters have contributed to internal displacement in the region as well. Nearly a million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya were displaced by droughts and unprecedented flooding believed to have been exacerbated by the Indian El Nino weather phenomenon.
Alexandra Bilak, the director of IDMC, said on Wednesday that the early effects of climate change are increasingly becoming a factor leading to displacements
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