Editing Population transfer (section)

===Ethiopia===

{{See also|Resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia}}

In the context of the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia]] thousands of people were resettled from northern to southern Ethiopia. The official reason given by the government was that people would be moved from the drought-affected northern regions to the south and south-west, where arable land was plentiful. Others argued that resettlement was a ploy to depopulate areas of unrest in the [[Ethiopian Civil War]].