Scores of journalists in Ethiopia in recent years have been wrongfully imprisoned in efforts to stifle their reporting.

Against this backdrop, a Facebook post claims to show footage of dozens of ballistic missiles being paraded by the Ethiopian ...

Ethiopian forces and Amhara militiamen have both in recent months killed dozens of civilians, caught in a conflict plaguing ...

Ethiopia’s federal government army is now battling rebellions in the Amhara and Oromia regions. The fighting in Amhara has been going on since 2023 when ethnic Amhara militias known as Fano ...

A violent clash that erupted late last week in Jimat Enkokma Kebele, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara region, left four people dead, including a 14-year-old boy and a monk. Residents told Addis Standard that ...

CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara Association of America, and Henok Ashagray, PhD candidate and project officer at ...

Fano is an ethnic Amhara militia without a formal ... In November last year, the Ethiopian government held talks with the other rebel group fighting in the Oromiya region, the Oromo Liberation ...

This shift has significantly influenced Somalia’s alignment with Egypt, as both seek to counter Ethiopia’s growing influence. Second, the Fano militia, an armed ethnic nationalist group from ...

The 15-member Council was formed following a peace conference in Bahir Dar, seat of the Amhara regional administration, in June 2024. It was established to facilitate communication channels and ...

Ethiopian army spokesman Getnet Adane told a press conference this week that fighters claiming to be from the local militia Fano were responsible for the violence. "We will take measures against ...

Fighting between the military and local Fano militiamen, which erupted after the end of civil war in neighbouring Tigray region, has been Ethiopia's biggest security crisis since. Verifiable ...