While challenges persist, leaders from Tigray and Amhara regions met last month to discuss the biggest roadblocks to achieving sustained peace. © Getachew Reda (left ...
The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked ...
Fresh fighting erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Fighters from a militia ...
We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ...
The Fano militia, based in Amhara state, is one of several regional groups battling the federal government since it vowed to crush paramilitary forces in April 2023. Tuesday’s attack took place in the ...
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces and Amhara militiamen have both in recent months killed dozens of civilians, caught in a conflict plaguing the country's second-largest region since ...
Ethiopia’s government and residents say the country's military recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters as details of dozens of civilian deaths began to ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in ...
Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, providing the most comprehensive independent death ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the ...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara region on Thursday asked the federal government for help, as a local ethnic militia clashed with federal security forces, halting some flights to key ...
Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.This conflict in Ethiopia’s north erupted less than ...