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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.
The Merawi massacre was the extrajudicial killing and massacre of 50 to 100 residents in the town of Merawi in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), [1] [2] [3] between 29–30 January 2024. [4] The massacre occurred after an attack on an Ethiopian military garrison by the Fano militia.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) called on "conflicting parties to immediately end" for human rights abuses in the region". [5] The commission told they received "credible reports of strikes and shelling, including from Debre Birhan, Finote Selam, and Bure, resulting in many civilian casualties and damage to residential areas and public spaces".
At least 100 people, including students, were kidnapped for ransom last week in Ethiopia's restive regions that have seen sporadic fighting since the end of the civil war in Tigray, the U.S ...
25 December – The Ethiopian National Defense Force closes the country's border with Somalia following heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes.
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 ...
August 4 – The Sudanese state of El Gedaref closes its border with Ethiopia after heavy fighting break out between Fano militia men and the Ethiopian army in the Amhara region. [63] August 4 – Due to the clashes between Fano and ENDF, the Ethiopian government declared a six-month state of emergency in the Amhara Region. [64]
On 22 January 2023, three bishops in Oromia Region diocese led by Abune Sawiros illegally formed 25-episcopate named “Holy Synod of Oromia Nations and Nationalities.” [3] Three days later, the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church excommunicated the group, accusing the Abiy Ahmed government for meddling to the church's affair.