The Fano, a long-standing "self-defence" militia for the Amhara ethnic group, the second largest in Ethiopia, took up arms against the federal government in April 2023 after it tried to disarm ...

This comes after months of clashes last year between the military and the ethnic Amhara militia, which describes itself as a “self-defence” organisation and draws volunteers from the local ...

Africa's second most populous country, with 120 million people, is again wrestling with deadly tensions between ethnic groups and their armed allies. Both the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups ...

CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara Association of America, and Henok Ashagray, PhD candidate and project officer at ...