Makeshift detention camps across the Amhara region have been filled with thousands of civilians since September Security ...

Ethiopia's army is arbitrarily jailing thousands of civilians in makeshift detention camps in the Amhara region, scene of an ...

Detainees were informed that they would be released upon completing this training, according to ... National Defence Forces ...

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 ...

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 ...

A joint task force composed of Ethiopia’s federal army and Amhara regional security authorities must end the month-long ...

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 ...

PM Abiy Ahmed's government imposed a six-month state of emergency across Amhara on 4 August. The fighting has been fuelled by Fano accusations that the federal government is trying to weaken ...

Several sources also told Amnesty that authorities are running what they called “rehabilitative training” in these camps ... Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and Fano militia broke out in the ...

Since April 2023 the federal government has been locked in conflict with the Fano, a long-standing "self-defence" militia for the Amhara ethnic ... call "rehabilitative training" in these camps.