Letters: Ambassador Biruk Mekonnen Demissie responds to a photo essay about the Fano insurgency in the Horn of Africa ...

The first formal pact between the Amhara regional state and one Fano faction signals a tentative opening towards dialogue, ...

ADDIS ABABA — After a brutal civil war lasting two years, Ethiopia’s government has been scrambling to rebuild its once booming economy with appeals to international donors and investors. But instead ...

The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a mega-dam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning Africa’s ...

Fresh fighting erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Fighters from a militia ...

EXCLUSIVE: Father Eskedar Getaneh stepped out of his house on April 12 to screams from surrounding neighbors in the village of Arkumbi Kebele in the Oromo region of ethnically divided Ethiopia.

On August 31, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Tigrayan forces entered the village of Chenna and engaged in fighting with Ethiopian federal soldiers and allied Amhara militias. In the town of ...

The influential US-based campaign group, the Amhara Association of America, went as far as to describe it as a "war pact" - a charge denied by Mr Abiy's government. Nevertheless, the perception took ...

For weeks now, heavy clashes have been raging in Amhara, a vitally important region that is also the second-biggest in Ethiopia. The new conflict comes barely nine months after the end of two years of ...

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's parliament on Friday extended by four months a state of emergency declared in August to respond to an insurgency in the northern region of Amhara that has resulted in hundreds ...

In an address to parliament in October, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the upcoming election would be the "best organised" in ...