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 ...

"It's repulsive to have been born a woman. If I were a man, they might have beaten me and walked away - they wouldn't have ...

Ethiopia’s government and residents say the country's military recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters as details of dozens of civilian deaths began to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Once a key ally of Ethiopia’s federal government in its deadly war in the country’s northern Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region is now experiencing government-led mass ...

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 ...

The Ethiopia of Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party, is a dark and frightening place, where anyone challenging the government are at risk of violence and arrest. People from the Amhara ethnic group ...

A new system will provide reliable access to safe water for an estimated 77,000 residents in Lalibela, a town renowned for ...

We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is among this malevolent list — not widely ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the ...

Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, providing the most comprehensive independent death ...