Fresh fighting erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Fighters from a militia ...

Addis Abeba — In Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multinational State, Donald Levine presents the Oromo and Amhara as two dominant ethnic groups who have taken turns in shaping Greater Ethiopia, a ...

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 ...

Since April 2023, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been the epicentre of political violence and armed confrontations between ethnic militias known as Fano and the federal government. Calls from national ...

ADDIS ABABA - Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict ...

Asres Mare Damte, a Fano militia member, poses for a photo in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo) Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he ...

Since November 2020, thousands have been killed and millions displaced as Ethiopian federal forces and their allies battle Tigrayan rebels. Fatuma Hussein, 65, sits in her shelter with her family at a ...

An airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike ...

ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, July 25 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Amhara region on Sunday called on "all young people" to take up arms against forces from the neighbouring region of Tigray, who claimed to have ...

The months-long conflict in Ethiopia faces a fresh wave of fighting as an Amhara regional official says Amhara forces will launch an offensive on Saturday against Tigrayan forces who have entered the ...

Scores of Ethiopians Die in Long-Running Amhara Conflict, Rights Body Says By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces and Amhara militiamen have both in recent months killed dozens of ...