{"id":276531,"date":"2019-05-20T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjEvZXRoaW9waWEtbWFraW5nLWRpc3BsYWNlbWVudC1jcmlzaXMtd29yc2Utd2l0aC1mb3JjZWQtcmV0dXJucy1yZWZ1Z2VlLWludC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:24","slug":"refugees-international-said-ethiopias-forced-idp-returns-were-making-the-displacement-crisis-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276531","title":{"rendered":"Refugees International said Ethiopia\u2019s forced IDP returns were making the displacement crisis worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews relayed Refugees International\u2019s warning that the Ethiopian government\u2019s push to return internally displaced people, especially in the Gedeo\u2013West Guji belt, was deepening an already severe crisis.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Refugees International said Ethiopia\u2019s forced IDP returns were making the displacement crisis worse\" \/>\n<p>RI advocate Mark Yarnell said officials had restricted aid in camps, demolished sites, and pressed people to go home while villages remained burned and insecure. Many who returned ended up in crowded secondary sites, and some fled again when violence resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia had recorded one of the world\u2019s highest new IDP counts in 2018. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government floated a strategic plan that returns should be voluntary and safe, yet field reporting in May 2019 described demolitions and coercion instead.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights archive, the RI charge sits beside Guardian reporting from the same weeks and remains a dated record of how official return drives collided with people\u2019s fear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeesinternational.org\/statements-and-news\/ethiopias-treatment-of-its-own-idps-making-crisis-worse\/\">Refugees International<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/21\/ethiopia-making-displacement-crisis-worse-with-forced-returns\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia making displacement crisis worse with forced returns \u2013 Refugee Int.&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews in EnglishThe Ethiopian government is worsening an already bad situation with respect to an internal displacement crisis that has made the country a glob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"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-276531","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\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276531","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=276531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754836,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276531\/revisions\/754836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}