The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

Cut off from their farms and businesses ... the withdrawal of foreign and [non-governmental] forces from the region." With Amhara militiamen still in western and southern Tigray, and Eritrean ...

Awra Amba, Ethiopia – Aregash Nuru pointed at the rolling green landscape in Ethiopia’s central Amhara region. “We used to watch the sunset from the hills,” she said with a sigh.

Livestock traders display their wares at a busy market town of Sangi, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo) ...

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.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's army said on Friday its troops had killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara region, as fears have ...

Addis Abeba — Desalegn Tasew, the Head of the war-torn Amhara Regional State Peace and Security Bureau and Cluster Coordinator for Administrative Affairs, visited the Bir Sheleko Basic ...

The federal government's decision in April to dismantle regional forces established by some states prompted violent protests in Amhara, with Amhara nationalists claiming the move would weaken ...

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 ...