{"id":277124,"date":"2019-05-26T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEPUF3Pdn0jnB_e8rFZSbEyIqFwgEKg8IACoHCAow-4fWBzD4z0gwwtp6?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:58","slug":"the-ft-said-ethnic-violence-had-forced-almost-three-million-ethiopians-from-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277124","title":{"rendered":"The FT said ethnic violence had forced almost three million Ethiopians from their homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the Financial Times reported from southern Ethiopia that ethnic violence had displaced almost three million people nationwide, among the world\u2019s largest internal displacement crises at the time.<\/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 FT said ethnic violence had forced almost three million Ethiopians from their homes\" \/>\n<p>The dispatch described Gedeo families waiting in mud after fleeing Guji areas of Oromia, with shelters failing in rain and return looking unsafe even when officials talked of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Displacement numbers from that year sit beside later Tigray and Amhara wars, and they remind readers that Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform period already carried mass flight from communal fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as displacement archive, the FT\u2019s nearly-3-million figure is a major dated reference for Ethiopia\u2019s 2018\u201319 IDP emergency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0fa7e73e-7afe-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian ethnic violence has forced almost 3m to flee homes&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial TimesOn a drenched field in southern Ethiopia, hundreds of members of the ethnic Gedeo community are huddled together with nothing to do but wait. It had rained all night&#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-277124","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-1a5K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124","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=277124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754917,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124\/revisions\/754917"}],"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=277124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}