Last month, The New Humanitarian visited Gojjam in southern Amhara, one of the ... during the Tigray war in 2020 against the TPLF. The conflict allowed Fano to expand - attracting new members ...

Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The conflict in Amhara has simmered largely out of ...

Since 2023 Ethiopia’s government has been in conflict with the Fano, a loose coalition of rebel groups that claim to be fighting for the interests of the Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-largest ...

During the Tigray war, which began in 2020, various Fano groups allied with the federal government. A peace deal in 2022 to stop the war sidelined the Amhara militia groups, which strained ...

The Ethiopian government’s military campaign against the Fano militias ... including the Amhara, replicating the Tigray People’s Liberation Forces (TPLF) insurgency in 2020, The Ethiopian ...

The nonprofit International Crisis Group has called the development an “ominous new ... Amhara conflict will persist unless there is a significant turnaround in Abiy’s policy towards Fano ...

Dec. 5, 2024 Before war broke out in Ethiopia, in late 2020 ... Amhara,” he said. “And now its army is invading our province.”Credit...Malin Fezehai for The New York Times Fano didn ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's army said on Friday its troops had killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara ... of a new war emerged ...

In late 2020 Abiy ... militias from Amhara. Two years on, that omission helps explain why Mr Abiy faces fresh insurgencies at home and a potential war with Eritrea. These new pressures threaten ...

Fears of a new war emerged in recent weeks ... "The extremist group calling itself Fano...carried out attacks in various (zones) of the Amhara region under the name of Operation Unity, and has ...