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 ...

The first formal pact between the Amhara regional state and one Fano faction signals a tentative opening towards dialogue, ...

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 ...

Since April 2023, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been the epicentre of political violence and armed confrontations between ethnic militias known as Fano and the federal government. Calls from national ...

Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party is facing rising discontent in the Amhara region as the province struggles to rebuild itself following the war with Tigray. The Tigray war spilled into Amhara, ...

Huge protests have taken place in Ethiopia's Amhara region for the fifth consecutive day against government moves to dissolve a paramilitary force. Demonstrators blocked roads with rocks and burning ...

Addis Abeba — In Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multinational State, Donald Levine presents the Oromo and Amhara as two dominant ethnic groups who have taken turns in shaping Greater Ethiopia, a ...

Since November 2020, thousands have been killed and millions displaced as Ethiopian federal forces and their allies battle Tigrayan rebels. Fatuma Hussein, 65, sits in her shelter with her family at a ...

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) 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 ...