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

Fano fought beside federal troops during the two-year conflict in Tigray, but in the aftermath, Amhara people from outside Abiy’s party, including Fano, were not included in negotiations that ...

The conflict between the Ethiopian army and Fano began in July 2023, driven by a sense of betrayal among many Amhara people regarding the terms of the 2022 peace agreement. The Ethiopian army said ...

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 than ...

Awra Amba, Ethiopia – Aregash Nuru pointed at the rolling green landscape in Ethiopia’s central Amhara region. “We used to watch sunset from the hills,” she said with a sigh. “But no ...