The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

Awra Amba, Ethiopia – Aregash Nuru pointed at the rolling green landscape in Ethiopia’s central Amhara region. “We used to watch the sunset from the hills,” she said with a sigh.

Harassment, kidnappings for ransom and arrests were daily experiences for Amhara region residents trying to enter Addis Ababa. Members of the Amhara community also faced ethnic-based violence in ...

The Amhara Fano’s “Operation Unity,” now in its third week, intensified yesterday and today with coordinated offensives across northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Fighting erupted in Bahr Dar, the ...

Asres Mare Damte, a Fano militia member, poses for a photo in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo) Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer.

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region. This conflict in Ethiopia's north erupted less ...