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 ...

The Arwa Amba in northern Ethiopia has been widely hailed for its radical commitment to equality, peace and pacifism. Now, ...

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 ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has found himself at the centre of a new conflict - this time in the vitally important Amhara region that marshalled its troops to help him thwart an attempt by ...

A suspected air strike in Ethiopia's Amhara region has killed at least 26 people, a hospital official said. The strike in Finote Selam on Sunday was among the most deadly in the region, where the army ...

EXCLUSIVE: Father Eskedar Getaneh stepped out of his house on April 12 to screams from surrounding neighbors in the village of Arkumbi Kebele in the Oromo region of ethnically divided Ethiopia.

On August 31, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Tigrayan forces entered the village of Chenna and engaged in fighting with Ethiopian federal soldiers and allied Amhara militias. In the town of ...

The conflict in Ethiopia's Amhara region reached a critical point on Monday as Ethiopia's federal authorities acknowledge the loss of territories to militia fighters. Fighting continued Monday between ...

Ethiopia’s military has clashed with fighters from a militia in the Amhara region, residents said on Wednesday, in an escalation of a simmering feud between the two former allies that a doctor said ...

Ethiopia’s Amhara state on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against Tigrayan fighters who are battling the federal government military and forces from all of Ethiopia’s other nine ...

Ethiopia, once praised as a founder of the AU and a regional pillar, has been torn apart first by the Tigray war and now by bloody fighting in the Amhara region. Local and opposition sources speak of ...

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 ...