In the highlands of Tigray, nearly 307,000 people who have already lost their homes now find themselves failed a second time — not by the absence of humanitarian systems, but by their hollowness. A multi-agency assessment led by the International Organization for Migration has mapped 78 displacement sites across five zones, revealing a humanitarian architecture that exists in form but not in function: food reaches most sites, yet people go hungry; coordination bodies are named, yet entire zones operate without oversight. What the study documents is not a crisis on the horizon, but one already
IOM Study Reveals Critical Humanitarian Gaps Across 78 Tigray Displacement Sites
Nearly 307,000 internally displaced persons across Tigray face severe deprivation in food, healthcare, water, shelter, and protection services, with documented vulnerabilities to sexual violence, child protection risks, and physical accessibility barriers.