In May 2019 Reuters reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was pressing a plan to return people displaced by ethnic violence to their home areas, even as humanitarian agencies warned that many returns were premature.
Officials talked about closing camps and restoring normal life; aid groups pointed to unfinished security and shelter conditions on the ground.
The tension between political return targets and protection standards became a lasting theme of Ethiopia’s displacement file.
Kept as humanitarian and politics archive, the Reuters story dates Abiy Ahmed’s public return campaign in late May 2019.
Sources: Reuters