Ethiopia’s Institute of Ombudsman Friday said more than half a million people were displaced due to recent conflicts and attacks in three regions of Ethiopia.
Chief Ombudsman Endale Haile in a statement said that 253,000 people were displaced from North Shoa Zone of Amhara Regional State and another 78,757 people were displaced in neighboring Oromia Special Zone due to targeted attacks by armed men.
According to the Chief Ombudsman, the internally displaced people are sheltered in five places, receiving food aid from federal and regional governments, International Red-Cross Society and host communities.
Meanwhile, fighters of the outlawed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) killed at least 16 civilians and undisclosed members of the Amhara Special Force in Abergele District Wag Himera Nationalities Administrative Zone in Amhara Regional State.
Head of Abergele District Administration Amare Kiros confirmed the attack which took place at dawn this week in the Zone’s Niruaq town where unspecified members of the Amhara special force were killed after an exchange of gunfire for about eight hours with TPLF soldiers.
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