CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara ...

which is eager to gain political influence over the Horn of Africa in a rivalry with other regional players such as Saudi Arabia. Everyday citizens in Amhara region and most other parts of ...

Scores of journalists in Ethiopia in recent years have been wrongfully imprisoned in efforts to stifle their reporting.

The 15-member Council was formed following a peace conference in Bahir Dar, seat of the Amhara regional administration, in June 2024. It was established to facilitate communication channels and ...

The crisis was compounded by armed resistance to the government in the two largest regional states, Amhara and Oromia. There are also ongoing conflicts between the pastoralist communities of the ...

The Tigray Interim Administration has moved to enshrine legislation that would allow the federal government to intervene in ...

Tigrayans dominated Ethiopian politics for decades until Abiy took ... wounded in fighting near the border between the Tigray and Amhara regions, with casualties on both sides, a humanitarian ...

The arrests coincide with an armed conflict in the Amhara region ... Ethiopia compounded by arrests and exile of journalists amid political turmoil. In its 2023 prison census, CPJ had designated ...