The first formal pact between the Amhara regional state and one Fano faction signals a tentative opening towards dialogue, ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The ...

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region. This conflict in Ethiopia’s north erupted less ...

Scores of people with links to an ethno-nationalist party in Ethiopia's Amhara state have been arrested after an attempted coup in the region, a party spokesman said Thursday. The arrests came on the ...

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 ...

As millions of children in Ethiopia remain out-of-school, the Amhara region has launched a massive registration campaign. The Regional State Education Bureau says it plans to enrol 7.4 million ...

We can finally say his name: Amir Aman Kiyaro. During the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Kiyaro was instrumental in AP’s coverage, helping the East Africa bureau win several Best of the Week honors ...

The Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is waging war against its own people—specifically, the Amhara. Amhara men, women, and children are being killed and arrested not for their ...

We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is among this malevolent list — not widely ...

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