NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Residents of Ethiopia's Amhara region said on Monday some young men were responding to a weekend call to arms by their president, as Amhara's government denied that ...

The Fano, a long-standing “self-defence” militia for the Amhara ethnic group, the second largest in Ethiopia, took up arms against the federal government in April 2023 after it tried to disarm ...

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 ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The ...

This November, a 20-year-old man from the Amhara region of Ethiopia — forced to drop out of school by the ongoing civil wars in Africa’s second-most populous nation and become a second-hand wool ...

The number of civilians killed in drone strikes has significantly increased since the conflict in the Amhara region erupted. The Ethiopian government, however, denies targeting innocents. A grieving ...

Recent fighting between Ethiopian government forces and militias in the northwestern Amhara region has put Sudanese refugees at grave risk. For more than a year, unidentified gunmen subjected the ...

A government offensive was launched in late September after regional militia groups known as Fano launched a series of attacks across Ethiopia’s second-biggest region and briefly entered several towns ...

The United States has voiced concern about growing violence in Ethiopia's Amhara state, scene of an insurgency since last year, the country's top diplomat said late Monday.

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