The Amhara fighting began in 2023 when the Ethiopian army announced a plan to dissolve the regional forces to integrate them into the army. The plan was rejected through mass protests that ...

Ethiopia declared a state of emergency in the northern Amhara region, home to around 23 million people, in August 2023. While this expired in June 2024, turmoil has continued to plague the restive ...

Derbe Belete, head of the Prosperity Party (PP) office in Kobo town (Photo: Social Media) Addis Abeba – Derbe Belete, head of the Prosperity Party (PP) office in Kobo town, North Wollo Zone of the ...

‘Ethiopia has entered a new era of disregard for national, regional and international human rights obligations’ - Tigere Chagutah A joint task force composed of Ethiopia’s federal army and Amhara ...

Makeshift detention camps across the Amhara region have been filled with thousands of civilians since September Security forces have described mass detention campaign as ‘law enforcement, to stabilise ...

Addis Abeba – Amnesty International has called on Ethiopian authorities to end the widespread detention of civilians in the Amhara region, citing what it describes as “arbitrary mass arrests” carried ...

Addis Abeba — Amnesty International has called on Ethiopian authorities to end the widespread detention of civilians in the Amhara region, citing what it describes as "arbitrary mass arrests ...

The report released this week says federal and regional security forces have filled four makeshift detention camps across the conflict-torn Amhara region with thousands of civilians over the past ...

Asmelash was fighting with the TPLF on the front lines in the northwest of the region when a mortar shell hit him in 2022, resulting in the loss of his leg. “Life as a soldier is very hard. At first, ...

For the past 20 months, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been torn apart by a bloody conflict between federal forces and a coalition of militia known as Fano, who demand full Amhara control of all ...

A forum for higher education institutions in the Amhara Regional State reported that more than 5,000 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) have sought clinical care in the year leading ...

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 regional ...