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's army said on Friday its troops had killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes ...

Ethiopian troops have killed more than 300 Fano armed group fighters, former allies against rebels in the Tigray region, in two days of renewed clashes in the northern Amhara region, according to the ...

The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

Since the federal government declared a state of emergency in Amhara in August 2023, the conflict has largely been fought between the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and the non-state militia ...

“ENDF has taken devastating measures on Fano forces and General Migbe’s forces in South Gondar, West Gondar, North Gojjam, East Gojjam, West Gojjam and North Wollo. In the past two days alone, ENDF ...

a deadly conflict has taken hold in Amhara – a region home to the UNESCO-protected rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and the historic fortress of Gondar – as the armed group Fano has violently ...

Yohannes Nigusu, spokesperson for Fano in Gondar, Amhara region, said 602 federal army soldiers were killed in the fighting and 430 wounded, while 98 soldiers had been captured and weapons had ...

A resident of Central Gondar Zone, who requested anonymity ... and destroyed" coordinated attacks by Fano militants across several parts of the Amhara region. The ENDF further claimed its forces ...