Last month, The New Humanitarian visited Gojjam in southern Amhara, one of the centres of the Fano rebellion. It provided a ...

Fano, a militia in the surrounding Amhara region, has been battling the army since it was ordered to disband. Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu has disputed reports of violence in the city ...

The Ethiopian government’s military campaign against the Fano militias in Amhara threatens more turbulence in the country, writes Farouk Hussein Abu Deif The Ethiopian army has launched a ...

It is one of the worst episodes of violence in the Amhara region since last August, when powerful local Fano militias began a rebellion against the government's plans to disarm them. Before then ...

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. The Fano, a long ...

Since April 2023 the federal government has been locked in conflict with the Fano, a long-standing "self-defence" militia for the Amhara ethnic group, Ethiopia's second largest. In September ...

“Since fighting began between federal forces and the Fano militia, civilians are once again bearing the brunt of an abusive army operating with impunity.” The human rights abuses in Amhara ...

The latest fighting between Ethiopian National Defense Forces and the Fano militia, which has left several people dead, began after a decision by the army and the Amhara regional government to ...

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 ...