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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 the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government.The conflict started after the government attempted to dissolve the Amhara Special Forces and other regional forces as part of a plan to reform and centralize the country's security apparatus, and integrate them into the federal ...
Mihretu "Mire" Wodajo (Amharic: ምህረቱ ወዳጆ) is an Ethiopian militiant leader of Fano militia in the Wollo faction. Since 2023, he is currently allied to Fano as part of War in Amhara . Life and career
During July 2024, Fano began a broad offensive in the Amhara region which enabled it to seize control of rural territories. [3] [2]Fano units in Gondar started attacking the B30 Highway in September after a lull in August and launched an offensive to gain control over the C34 road, [4] which links Amhara to neighboring Sudan.
The Merawi massacre was the extrajudicial killing and massacre of 50 to 100 residents in the town of Merawi in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), [1] [2] [3] between 29–30 January 2024. [4] The massacre occurred after an attack on an Ethiopian military garrison by the Fano militia.
The Mai Kadra massacre was a massacre and ethnic cleansing carried out during the Tigray War on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra in Welkait (a disputed area between the Amhara and Tigray Regions) in northwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. [11]
The Persecution of Amhara people [8] is the ongoing persecution of the Amhara and Agaw people of Ethiopia.Since the early 1990s, the Amhara people have been subject to ethnic violence, including massacres by Tigrayan, Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide.
Kalkidan Yibeltal - BBC News, Mekelle March 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM Mekelle, a key city in northern Ethiopia, is still reeling from the two-year conflict [Amensisa Ifa / BBC]
According to BBC Amharic, students who withdrew money in western Ethiopia queued to access ATM machines after which police officers approached the campus. A Dilla University student said a number of his peers withdrew money from CBE between midnight and 02:00 local time. [ 6 ]