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The federal government of Ethiopia has admitted that peace in the war-torn Amhara region "has not been fully secured as the people desire," and that civilian movement "has not been completely freed ...
A destroyed tank sits by the side of the road south of Humera, in an area of western Tigray annexed by the Amhara region during an ongoing conflict in Ethiopia, on May 1, 2021.
Clashes erupted in the second-largest city of Ethiopia's tumultuous Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over the government's intentions to disarm local armed groups.
Amhara is Ethiopia’s second most populous region, with more than three times as many people as Tigray, and parts of Amhara lie just about 50km (30 miles) from Addis Ababa, the capital.
Violent protests erupted across Amhara in April after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered that security forces from Ethiopia’s 11 regions be disbanded and integrated into the police or national army.
Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia August 26, 2021.
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament on Friday extended by four months a state of emergency declared in August to respond to an insurgency in the northern region of Amhara that has ...
Violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia, leading the deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement to ...
Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday.
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 ...
The rhetoric that presents the Amhara people as a national enemy has gone on, unchallenged, for far too long. Ethiopia’s Amhara people are being portrayed as the enemy: the dangerous history of ...
At least nine people were killed and more than 30 others were injured in fresh fighting that erupted in Debark and Dabat towns of the North Gondar zone in Ethiopia's Amhara region between ...