No fewer than 600,000 Ethiopians have fled their homes since March, largely due to flooding, United Nation (UN) said on Wednesday, with more rain predicted up to December.
Ethiopia was hit in 2015 by one of the worst droughts in decades, with 10 million requiring emergency aid, which ended when the spring rains arrived in March.
Almost 300,000 people were displaced between March and June due to floods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said in its latest update.
Others were displaced by inter-communal conflict in Ethiopiaโs southern Oromia and Somali regions.
Many of the people who fled the floods had since returned home but no fewer than 10,000 families were still displaced and needed emergency shelter and household basics, it said.
It said heavy rains had delayed emergency food aid deliveries to 85,000 flood affected people in Somali region.
The UN said La Nina weather phenomenon was likely to bring further rain and flooding.
La Nina, which tends to occur unpredictably every two to seven years, is characterised by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
