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Fano militiamen fighting the Ethiopian army in the Amhara region over-ran Lalibela and Gondar for several days in August marking Ethiopia's most serious security crisis since a two-year civil war ...
During the onset of the war in April 2023, the Fano militia also speculated to carried out cleansing of ethnic Oromos within their territory. In March 2021, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) militants began offensive targeted to ethnic Amhara occupied zone in Oromia, forcing Amharas to leave Oromia. As of June 2022, about 200 Amharas killed in ...
Ethiopia's military has been fighting insurgents from the Fano militia since July in a conflict that left more than 200 people dead last year, according to United Nations reports.
One of the Fano rebellion’s bloodiest episodes occurred on Jan 29, when soldiers went door-to-door killing dozens of civilians in the Amhara town of Merawi after clashes with local Fano members ...
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.
Violent protests erupted across Amhara in April after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered that security forces from Ethiopia's 11 regions be disbanded and integrated into the police or national army.
The attack was the deadliest since the start of the conflict in Amhara Region between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian military. [5] As of 15 August, the death toll rose to 30 with more than 55 injured people receiving emergency treatment. [6] [7] The Ethiopian Media Service stated that the causality number has reached 70 according to some ...
Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of "beating a war drum" over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans to territories ...