The conflict in Konso is part of a series of ethnic-based violence in Ethiopia.

UN OCHA reported that its Early warning department of SNNPR categorized Konso as a priority hot spot area.

Repeated conflict and the issue of adverse weather exacerbated the existing humanitarian crisis in the Zone.

[1] Interpersonal ethnic violence are deepening into serious human rights violations and suffering, with the ethnic federalism system that drew formal administrative divisions with regional boundaries falling along ethnic lines.

[2][3] This is the background for some southern ethnic habitation since the 1990s and the timeline of the Konso conflict.