Where the death of a villager is a blessing for a struggling mother
Mourning for a plate of food
By - Martin Karimi
There are over 800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Qare kebele, eastern Ethiopia, in the middle of expansive farmland. Most were displaced from Jigjiga area in the Somali Region and others come from the Oromia-Somali regional border.
They are here because originally their families came from this area. Saada Mohammed Rashid is here because her husband has a distant relative in the area.
The IDPs live among farmers but they do not own any land — even the space where they have put up their huts is only loaned to them.
Married in the ‘wrong’ area
Saada is in her 20s but does not know her exact age, like many people in rural Ethiopia. She has two children aged one and two years.
Saada used to live in the city of Kebribeyah and made money cleaning homes and washing clothes while her husband worked on construction sites. Life was not rosy but they both made some money and were able to put food on the table.
Saada is a Somali married to a man from the Oromo group, and when inter-communal clashes began last year they were forced to flee their home.
“I don’t want to return to Kebribeyah,” she says. “I’m still afraid. They did bad things to us.”
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