Ethiopians who fled the conflict in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia wait to receive food in Hamdayit camp, Kassala State, Sudan on December 14, 2020. PHOTO | FILE
Ethiopia recorded the highest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) than any other country in 2021, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
According to IDMC's 2022 global report made public on Thursday, conflict and violence in the Horn of Africa nation triggered more than 5.1 million new displacements in 2021, three times the number in 2020 and the highest annual figure ever recorded for a single country.
