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 ...

The army said 317 Fano fighters were killed and 125 injured after attacks in various zones of the Amhara region ... Fears of a new war emerged in recent weeks after Eritrea reportedly ordered ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA - 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 ... Fears of a new war emerged ...