Ethiopia: Schools, factories, courthouses: Desperate shelters for the displaced
- Ref
- OHRM-2018-0019
- Date of incident
- Zone
- West Guji
Schools. These are just a few of the buildings that now act as shelters for displaced families in southern Ethiopia after a wave of inter-communal clashes along the border areas of Gedeo and West Guji zones drove nearly one million people from their homes. “We came here because we were attacked,” said Tigist, who fled her home in Hanchabie village. “We left our village empty-handed to save our lives. We travelled and spent three days in the bush to get here.”
Source: Addis Standard, "Ethiopia: Schools, factories, courthouses: Desperate shelters for the displaced", published 2018-08-28. https://addisstandard.com/ethiopia-schools-factories-courthouses-desperate-shelters-displaced/