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The Ethiopian flag with no emblem is widely advocated by the Fano militia. Fano is an ethno-nationalist Amhara militia and former protest movement that first emerged in 2010s. . Ideologically Amhara nationalist and Pan-Ethiopianist, Fano has been engaged with several wars and civil conflicts in Ethiopia, and were a major belligerent in the Tigray War and the OLA insurgen
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.
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 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 of deaths ...
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 ...
The War in Amhara is an armed conflict and insurgency in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia that began in April 2023 between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government.The conflict started after the government attempted to dissolve the Amhara Special Forces and other regional forces as part of a plan to reform and centralize the country's security apparatus, and integrate them into the federal ...
Fano militias and the Amhara regional forces backed the ENDF during the Tigray War, which began on 4 November 2020 when TPLF-aligned forces attacked the ENDF Northern Command headquarters in what TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda called a "preemptive operation". [16] [17] Fano played a significant role in the conquest of Western Tigray in November ...
The Amhara Regional Special Forces is headed by the commander-in-chief of the Regional Special Forces. In April 2023, the Ethiopian government's plan to dismantle the paramilitary structure of the regional forces and integrate them into the ENDF, Federal Police, and regional police units led to massive protests in the Amhara region that ultimately led to the outbreak of the War in Amhara.