France 24 showed how ethnic violence left southern Ethiopian farmers still homeless a year later

In June 2019 France 24 / AFP reported from Cherqo in southern Ethiopia on people like Teketel, who more than a year after his house was razed, his coffee plantation destroyed, and his cattle stolen, still lived with the misery that followed ethnic attacks.

The feature argued that Abiy Ahmed’s reform glow had not stopped rising displacement and revenge cycles in several regions, and it used southern farm losses to show how ethnic conflict kept producing long-term poverty.

Kept as politics and humanitarian archive, the France 24 report dates mid-2019 testimony on ethnic-violence misery that outlasted the early reform honeymoon.

Sources: France 24 / AFP