More than 3.45 million citizens of which more than half of them are victims of conflicts displaced in Ethiopia, International Organization for Migration (IOM) new report indicated.
The IOM, through its latest Ethiopia National Displacement Report released on Friday stated that the main causes of the displacement were conflict, drought and social tension.
The Somali region hosts the highest number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) primarily due to drought, while the Tigray region hosts the highest number of IDPs primarily displaced due to conflict, it said.
The IOM report indicated that an estimated 2.53 million returning IDPs were identified in more than 2,000 villages across 11 regions, in which the highest returning IDP caseloads nationwide were in the Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions.
The UN agency said Ethiopia is on the verge of a major humanitarian situation due to cycles of multiple, often overlapping crises, which severely weakens communities' ability to cope.
The humanitarian crises in Ethiopia, it said, are primarily driven by the convergence of four major factors that are climate crises mainly manifested through floods and drought, armed conflicts, disease outbreaks, as well as economic shocks.
The convergence of these shocks according to the agency is pushing more people into displacement, food insecurity, malnutrition, disease outbreaks, and increased protection concerns amid rising global prices of essential commodities, inflation, and continual devaluation of the local currency.
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