ADDIS ABABA - MORE than 1.7 million people displaced due to conflict are in need of urgent
assistance across 265 accessible locations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and
neighboring Afar and Amhara.
This is according to data report collected by the International
Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
The data
reveals the extent to which people have fled to towns and cities to seek
humanitarian assistance and gain access to essential services.
The report is the fifth of such assessment conducted by IOM in the area. The figures were collected through
a monthly Emergency Site Assessment which has been in place since the conflict
in Northern Ethiopia erupted in November 2020.
The assessment, conducted between
01-22 April, shows that there are some 1,645,944 IDPs in Tigray region, another
48,420 in Afar region and 20,812 in Amhara region.
The report says the data are only indicative
of the displacement in areas accessible to IOM enumerators. Many sections of the
Tigray region’s Northwestern, Central, Eastern and Southern zones remain out of
reach to humanitarian partners due to continuing insecurity.
The highest
concentration of displaced persons is in Shire, where 575,115 IDPs are residing
in overcrowded collective shelters, including schools, within the host community
and in open spaces. The majority are from Western and Northwestern Tigray.
Other
urban areas with high displacement concentrations included Adwa
(188,910), Sheraro (165,223), and Mekele Zone (200,909).
According to the
analysis of DTM and partner datasets, there is a pressing need to deal with
growing food insecurity, particularly to assist those displaced, as well as
providing shelter, water, sanitation, hygiene and other non-food items in
the overcrowded sites across the conflict-affected area.
Since the beginning of
the crisis, IOM has been monitoring the humanitarian and displacement situation
through monthly area-based assessments, which capture the number of displaced
persons, their locations and needs to inform the wider humanitarian response.
IOM will continue to expand its assessment coverage in the north so that the
needs of more IDPs can be assessed. Since 2018, DTM has been the official source
for displacement data in Ethiopia. DTM works in collaboration with Ethiopia’s
National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC).
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