Fano, a militia in the surrounding Amhara region, has been battling the army since it was ordered to disband. Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu has disputed reports of violence in the city ...

Armed groups in Amhara resisted. Now the federal government is actively fighting a powerful militia in Amhara, known as Fano. When we visited, much of the recent fighting between the federal ...

Meanwhile, the Fano militia group in Amhara was a former ally of the Abiy government during the two-year Tigray war which ended in November 2022. However, the rebels turned against the government ...

Eskinder Nega, a former journalist, an activist and now one of the leaders of the Fano militia, denied that the group targets civilians. "Of course not," he said in an interview with VOA last week.

Two residents said the airstrike targeted a truck carrying civilians who were returning from delivering food to fighters with the militia known as Fano. Their account could not be verified.

Its latest workshop was organized in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the region, which has arisen primarily from the ongoing conflict between the Fano militia and security forces.

Fighting broke out in the northern region -- home to 23 million people -- in April 2023 between federal forces and the Fano "self-defence" militia. Although a state of emergency ended in June 2024 ...