ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday it needs 12.2 million U.S. dollars to meet the three months needs of 631,000 Internally Displaced People in Ethiopia.
In a press statement, WFP said the funds are needed to meet the October to December 2018 needs of the 631,000 IDPs, which are displaced by communal conflict that occurred along the common boundary of Oromia and Somali regional states.
WFP said the funds are need to meet humanitarian needs of the IDPs until the end of 2018 including emergency shelter, non-food items and nutritional needs.
Heavy clashes along the Oromia-Somali boundary since September 2017 spilled into ethnic violence, which has left scores of people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced from both sides.
Oromia and Somali regional states have been locked in a dispute over the delineation of their common boundary for almost two decades.
A referendum in October 2004 was supposed to demarcate the boundary between the two regional states, but its implementation has been stalled ever since, with both sides accusing each other of non-compliance with the referendum results.
