The Amhara Fano’s “Operation Unity,” now in its third week, intensified yesterday and today with coordinated offensives across northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Fighting erupted in Bahr Dar, 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 ...

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.