The prized sesame fields of the contested Western Tigray—currently under the control of Amhara regional forces—have become ...

Africa Renewed clashes erupt in Ethiopia's Amhara region over disarmament dispute Amhara, Ethiopia's second-most populous state, has been grappling with violence since early August ...

The Ethiopian military summarily executed several dozen civilians and committed other war crimes on January 29, 2024, in the town of Merawi in Ethiopia’s northwestern Amhara region.

The president of Ethiopia's Amhara region, which has been convulsed by deadly clashes over the past month between the army and local militiamen, resigned on Friday and has been replaced, state-run ...

A destroyed tank sits by the side of the road south of Humera, in an area of western Tigray annexed by the Amhara region during an ongoing conflict in Ethiopia, on May 1, 2021.

In a separate incident highlighting instability in the region, at least 30 people were killed in fighting between members of Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amhara, in a town ...

FILE - Soldiers with the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) travel on a truck near Aykel, on a road that connects Gondar to the Sudanese border in Ethiopia's Amhara region, on Feb. 27, 2024.

Dawit Hailu a 30-year-old farmer from a remote area near Abdurafi town in, northwest Amhara, recalls the difficulties he faced in accessing healthcare "I knew the risks of snakebites and was aware of ...

Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia August 26, 2021.

Police told the Bahir Dar City High Court that Dr. Daniel Fantahun, an imprisoned member of the Health Professionals Movement, is allegedly "continuing and leading the struggle from prison using ...

Livestock traders display their wares at a busy market town of Sangi, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: AP ...

Amhara is Ethiopia’s second most populous region, with more than three times as many people as Tigray, and parts of Amhara lie just about 50km (30 miles) from Addis Ababa, the capital.