
Leaking drums of sodium cyanide at an open-pit gold mine in Papua New Guinea. © Glen Barry / Greenpeace
I started at Greenpeace ten years ago. 2008 doesn’t seem that long ago, but the world was a very different place back then.
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Leaking drums of sodium cyanide at an open-pit gold mine in Papua New Guinea. © Glen Barry / Greenpeace
I started at Greenpeace ten years ago. 2008 doesn’t seem that long ago, but the world was a very different place back then.
20 July, 2018 – Addis Ababa (IOM)* – Clashes between communities on the border of Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and Oromia regions have forced some 970,000 people to flee their homes since April 2018, most becoming displaced in June alone.

IOM team discusses improving poor living conditions with displaced Ethiopians. Photo: Olivia Headon IOM
Rapid woreda (district) level assessments conducted by IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams have found that 822,187 people are displaced in Gedeo zone (SNNPR region) and at least 147,040 people in West Guji (Oromia region).