Huge protests have taken place in Ethiopia's Amhara region for the fifth consecutive day against government moves to dissolve a paramilitary force. Demonstrators blocked roads with rocks and ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Both the US and EU are calling for an independent investigation. It is one of the worst episodes of violence in the Amhara region since last August, when powerful local Fano militias began a ...

Addis Abeba — Derbe Belete, head of the Prosperity Party (PP) office in Kobo town, North Wollo Zone of the Amhara region, was reportedly killed by gunfire, sources informed Addis Standard.

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 ...

The suspected ringleader of Saturday's failed coup attempt in Ethiopia's Amhara region has been shot dead, police say. Brig Gen Asaminew Tsige was killed as he attempted to escape from his hideout ...

LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United Nations is considering suspending relief operations, including food aid deliveries, in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, following deadly attacks on humanitarian ...

[Reuters] Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region in recent weeks looted warehouses belonging to the U.S. government's humanitarian agency in the Amhara region, USAID's mission director in Ethiopia ...

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 ...