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Shewa Robit (Amharic: ሸዋ ሮቢት)also known as Robi, Shah Robit, Shoa Robit or Robit is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region , this town has a longitude and latitude of 10°00′N 39°54′E / 10.000°N 39.900°E / 10.000; 39.900 with an elevation of 1280 meters above sea
The War in Amhara is an armed conflict and insurgency in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia that began in April 2023 between Fano militia and the Ethiopian government.The conflict began after the Ethiopian military raided the Amhara Region to disarm the Amhara Special Forces and other regional allies, which resulted in resistance of local armed forces and a series of protests in Gondar, Kobo ...
Attack. After fighting in the region around Ataye, a dozen of civilians that had been injured in the clashes were on their way to be taken to the much larger hospital, Yifat Hospital in Shewa Robit. The ambulance was stopped and 12 civilians were pulled from the ambulance and then beaten and stabbed to death. HRLHA's source identified suspects ...
3,000 displaced. The 2022 North Shewa clashes were a series of clashes that broke out between ethnic Amhara Fano militiamen, the Oromo Liberation Army, and the Ethiopian National Defence Forces in the North Shewa zone in the Oromia region and the Oromia Zone in the Amhara region, which resulted in dozens of people killed and thousands displaced.
Persecution of Amhara people. Since the 1990s, the Amhara people of Ethiopia have been subject to ethnic violence, including massacres by Tigrayan, Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide. [7][8][9][10] Large-scale killings and grave human rights violations followed the implementation of the ...
March clashes. On 18 March 2021, clashes broke out in the town of Ataye. The clashes started when Amhara special forces shot a person on the steps of the mosque in the town, then quickly spread with Oromo and Amhara militia taking up arms against each other. The clashes spread through the countryside and eventually reached the town of Kemise ...
During this time, region-wide protests erupted across the Amhara Region especially in cities like Gonder, Bahir Dar and Woldia. Protestors called for an end to oppression, amendment to the racist Ethiopian constitution and recognition of the ethnic Amhara identity of the lands of Welkait, Raya, Metekel and Dera/Shewa. During this period ...
The Oromo people are an ethnic group who predominantly inhabit Oromia in Ethiopia, along with communities in neighboring Kenya and Somalia. [23] [24] They are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa; according to a 2007 census, [25] they make up about 34.5% of Ethiopia's population, and others estimate that they make up about 40% of the population.