{"id":276023,"date":"2019-05-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMidWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmVjb25vbWlzdC5jb20vZ3JhcGhpYy1kZXRhaWwvMjAxOS8wNS8xNC9hZnRlci1kcm91Z2h0LWZhbWluZS1hbmQtd2FyLWV0aG5pYy1jb25mbGljdC1ub3ctcGxhZ3Vlcy1ldGhpb3BpYdIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:53:05","slug":"the-economist-after-drought-and-war-ethnic-conflict-was-displacing-ethiopians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276023","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: after drought and war, ethnic conflict was displacing Ethiopians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May 2019 The Economist\u2019s graphic detail desk argued that Ethiopia, long associated with drought and starvation-driven movement, was now seeing violence as a major engine of displacement.<\/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=\"The Economist: after drought and war, ethnic conflict was displacing Ethiopians\" \/>\n<p>The piece used charts and reporting to show how communal conflict, not only climate, was forcing people from their homes during Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early tenure. It connected older famine memory to a newer map of ethnic clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign readers who still pictured Ethiopia mainly as a hunger story needed that update. Local readers already knew the burned kebeles behind the bars on the chart.<\/p>\n<p>As conflict archive, the Economist graphic remains a clean 2019 baseline for how international media finally named ethnic violence as a displacement driver inside Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2019\/05\/14\/after-drought-famine-and-war-ethnic-conflict-now-plagues-ethiopia\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drought, famine and war, ethnic conflict now plagues Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;The EconomistFOR MANY years Ethiopia struggled with drought and starvation, creating a population that moved frequently in search of food and water. Now it is violence that &#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-276023","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-19NZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276023","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=276023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754516,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276023\/revisions\/754516"}],"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=276023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}