Urgent Need For Food Aid In Amhara, Which Hosts Many Displaced By Tigray War

HAYK, ETHIOPIA - APRIL 4: Internally displaced people from Wollega become emotional as they gather around to listen to other IDP's recount their experiences of forced displacement from their homes in Wollega at the Children's Growing Center IDP camp on April 4, 2022 in Hayk, Ethiopia. Many of the IDP's in the camp were either separated from their families during their flight from Wollega or had seen family members or neighbors killed at the hands of the OLA/OLF. The IDP camp houses over 1,300 ethnic Amhara who had been displaced by ongoing attacks and ethnic cleansing in the province of Wollega in Oromia by the Oromo Liberation Army and Oromo Liberation Front. The attacks against ethnic Amhara farmers and business people who had lived in the region for at least 2 generations or more are meant to rid the Oromia region of ethnic amhara and forcibly acquire their lands and property. Some of the displaced people in the camp walked for up to 22 days to seek safe haven in the camp arriving with any thing they could carry. The camp is one of several in Wollo housing ethnic Amhara forced from their lands under threat of slaughter and death as multiple massacres have occurred in Wollega with almost weekly frequency. State authorities in Amhara recently said that 11.6 million people in the region are in need of food aid, including hundreds of thousands displaced by the conflict between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces and their allies. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)