In May 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopia was being cautioned over plans to send nearly three million people displaced by ethnic violence back to their home areas, while other outlets noted that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was pressing a rapid return program.
Rights monitors and humanitarian agencies warned that returns without security and services could become forced displacement in reverse, especially where communities still feared attack.
Kept as humanitarian and politics archive, the Africanews file dates the international caution around Abiy Ahmed’s 2019 IDP return drive.
Sources: Africanews