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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 ...
Heaven Awot, a seven-year-old girl was brutally raped, mutilated and killed by her mother's landlord Getnet Baye in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia in August 2023. Getnet was sentenced to 25 years life in prison. The murder has heavily sparked public outrage, who demand appropriate punishment for the assailant, and circulated in social media.
The 2014–2016 Oromo protests[3][29][25][26][27][28][4][5] were a series of protests and resistance [30] first sparked on 25 April 2014. The initial actions were taken in opposition to the Addis Ababa Master Plan, [1] and resumed on 12 November 2015 by university students and farmers in the town of Ginchi, located 80 km southwest of Addis ...
Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in ...
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 ...
The power struggle between Abiy Ahmed’s regime and the TPLF led to the Tigray War that started after the Ethiopian military's Northern Command was attacked by TPLF in November 2020. [13] [14] As the war prolonged, the Tigrayan rebels retook most of Tigray and invaded the Amhara and the Afar regions in July 2021, reportedly massacring ...
Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present) Territorial control as of August 2024. [a] (For a more detailed, up-to-date, interactive map, see here). The ongoing Ethiopian civil conflict began with the 2018 dissolution of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (ERPDF), an ethnic federalist, dominant party political coalition.
Finote Selam drone strike. On 13 August 2023, the Ethiopian National Defense Force launched a drone strike on the town of Finote Selam, in the West Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region in Ethiopia which killed 30 people while injuring more than 55 people who underwent emergency treatment. The strike was occurred after the ENDF recaptured several towns ...