{"id":275958,"date":"2019-05-13T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMTMvZXRoaW9waWEtaXMtZ2xvYmFsLWxlYWRlci1vbi1pbnRlcm5hbGx5LWRpc3BsYWNlZC1wZXJzb25zLWdyaWQv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:49","slug":"ethiopia-held-an-unenviable-2019-record-as-a-world-leader-in-conflict-idps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275958","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia held an unenviable 2019 record as a world leader in conflict IDPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 May 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopia maintained a grim global lead in the number of people internally displaced by conflict across the country.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-458516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia held an unenviable 2019 record as a world leader in conflict IDPs\" \/>\n<p>The IDP peak followed Gedeo-West Guji clashes, Benishangul-Gumuz and Amhara border killings, and other communal wars that emptied villages while Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform brand still dominated foreign headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Displacement counts are contested and change with returns, secondary flight, and government access bans. Even so, the 2019 global-leader framing is a baseline outsiders often forgot once newer wars began.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as humanitarian archive, the Africanews report files the uncomfortable fact that Ethiopia\u2019s conflict displacement crisis was already world-scale before Tigray\u2019s later catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/13\/ethiopia-is-global-leader-on-internally-displaced-persons-grid\/\">africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is global leader for internally displaced persons &#8211; Report&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsEthiopia maintained an unenviable record of being the global leader in internally displaced persons driven out of their places of residence due to conflicts across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":458516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Amhara-struggle.jpg?fit=2700%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19MW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754510,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958\/revisions\/754510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}