Director of RSF’s sub-Saharan Africa bureau. April’s arrests In April 2023, the security forces arrested eight journalists who had covered subjects related to the Amhara ethnic group or the conflict ...

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 ...

Four major rebel forces operating in the war-torn Amhara region of Ethiopia have announced merger with an aim to launch a coordinated struggle against the federal government forces. The rebel forces ...

Entire Amhara communities have been devastated: tens of thousands are dead, over two million are estimated to be displaced, and hundreds of thousands—perhaps as many as 500,000—falsely imprisoned.

Ethiopia’s Amhara region gripped by chaos as Fano rebel group challenges government Amir Aman Kiyaro | The Associated Press April 11, 2025 16 views 4 minute read Asres Mare Damte, a Fano militia ...

The government’s violent counterinsurgency and occasional peace overtures are unlikely to succeed. The Prosperity Party is not popular in Amhara. A meaningful peace process – rather than calls for ...

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 ...

Amhara's outspoken leaders who criticised this dominance faced removal, arrest or exile. The region's president, Ambachew Mekonnen, was assassinated in June 2019.

Faced with a political crisis and growing unrest in 2014 following opposition clampdowns and arbitrary arrests, the coalition needed a change. Two members – the Oromo People’s Democratic Organisation ...

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In late July, Yared Melese, a 30-year-old NGO worker, checked into a hotel in North Wollo zone, part of Ethiopia’s troubled Amhara region. He had gone to assess humanitarian needs on behalf of Action ...

The Amhara Regional State Council has appealed to the House of Federation urging the release of federal government subsidies for the Wolkait administrative area. Wolkait, which had been under the ...