After several months of small-scale skirmishes, Amhara saw open rebellion in July 2023, when Fano groups launched a coordinated offensive and briefly seized control of several towns.

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 ...

Even more troubling, Fano militias have harassed, humiliated, and beaten school principals and teachers whose only “crime” was attempting to educate children in rural Amhara.

Meanwhile, residents in the main Amhara city of Gondar have also reported a third frontline, where government and Fano militias clashed.

In the Amhara region, the Fano militia group also rejected the government's peace efforts, calling them "insincere." Government officials "believe in a military victory.

Armed groups in Amhara resisted. Now the federal government is actively fighting a powerful militia in Amhara, known as Fano. The Amhara region in Ethiopia remains engulfed in conflict.

The Fano of today are an ethno-nationalist group that claims to represent the Amhara, Ethiopia's second-biggest community, and seem to have widespread popular support.

The United Nations is considering suspending relief operations, including food aid deliveries, in Ethiopia's Amhara region, following deadly attacks on humanitarian workers, according to a draft ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. 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 Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

Fighting between Ethiopia's army and Amhara Fano militiamen broke out in July 2023 and has killed hundreds and displaced thousands according to U.N. estimates.