{"id":277778,"date":"2019-05-29T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEPljIdLowmjyzJzVKTPGYWUqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCML_r1wU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:05","slug":"ocha-said-nearly-1-9-million-ethiopian-idps-had-returned-toward-areas-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277778","title":{"rendered":"OCHA said nearly 1.9 million Ethiopian IDPs had returned toward areas of origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 a UN OCHA Ethiopia Humanitarian Bulletin said authorities reported that nearly 1.9 million internally displaced people had returned toward their areas of origin, though many were still in temporary sites pending rehabilitation.<\/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=\"OCHA said nearly 1.9 million Ethiopian IDPs had returned toward areas of origin\" \/>\n<p>Another 1.1 million people remained in sites that were being dismantled and closed, and the bulletin also noted restored INGO access to Kamashi zone after months of intermittent access.<\/p>\n<p>Return figures can hide coercion and unfinished recovery, so the bulletin\u2019s own caution about temporary sites is part of why the document still matters.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as humanitarian archive, the May 2019 OCHA bulletin dates official IDP-return claims under Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-humanitarian-bulletin-issue-9-13-26-may-2019\">ReliefWeb \/ OCHA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.9 million Ethiopian IDPs return to areas of origin&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebSource: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Ethiopia Most of the returning IDPs are not in their homes, but in temporary sites pending rehabilit&#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-277778","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-1agi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277778","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=277778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754961,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277778\/revisions\/754961"}],"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=277778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}