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8/14/2023 7:20:12 PM
An airstrike on a crowded town square in Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 55 others, a senior health official said Monday, days after authorities asserted that calm had been restored in the area.
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8/14/2023 1:59:42 PM
Authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out mass arrests of hundreds, even thousands, of people in the capital after deadly unrest in the country’s Amhara region, lawyers and witnesses said.
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8/10/2023 7:10:00 PM
Ethiopia's restive Amhara region was largely calm on Thursday, local residents said, after the federal government announced its forces had driven back militia fighters following days of fierce clashes.
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8/7/2023 3:05:32 PM
Ethiopia’s federal government says it lost control of some districts and towns to militia fighters in the country’s Amhara region during the latest conflict emerging in Africa’s second most populous nation.
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8/5/2023 6:03:28 PM
Ethiopian authorities have arrested people connected to "the security crisis in Amhara", the government said Saturday after imposing a state of emergency on the northern region following clashes between local fighters and federal troops.
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8/4/2023 12:33:09 PM
Ethiopia's federal government on Friday declared a "state of emergency" following an escalation of violence in the northern region of Amhara, the office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said.
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8/3/2023 2:21:12 PM
Ethiopia's Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen said he was worried by the escalation of violence in northern Amhara region after clashes between federal troops and local fighters prompted Britain and Spain to issue security warnings.
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Africa
7/27/2023 1:22:54 PM
The northern Ethiopian region of Tigray says that more than 50,000 of its fighters have been demobilised under a peace deal it signed with the federal government that ended a bloody two-year war.
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7/6/2023 3:43:25 PM
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday vowed to dismantle all paramilitary forces in the country, saying the rise of these illegal groups posed "a significant risk" to national unity.
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6/6/2023 3:10:10 PM
The Ethiopian government on Tuesday rejected a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that accused local authorities and regional forces of pursuing a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray despite last year's peace deal.
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6/1/2023 3:32:29 PM
Local authorities and regional forces continued a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray despite a peace deal ending the war in northern Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday.
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5/23/2023 7:42:52 PM
Thousands of people displaced by the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region staged protests Tuesday demanding to be able to return home and calling for the withdrawal of "invading forces", witnesses and local television said.
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4/27/2023 7:32:52 PM
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday the head of his ruling Prosperity Party in the northern region of Amhara had been assassinated.
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Region
4/26/2023 5:47:31 PM
Thousands of people have entered Ethiopia fleeing fighting in neighboring Sudan, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.
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4/13/2023 11:05:24 PM
Forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have displaced tens of thousands of ethnic Tigrayans from disputed territory in the north of the country in recent weeks despite a peace deal agreed late last year, according to aid workers and internal agency documents seen by the AP.
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1/26/2023 1:00:01 PM
Witnesses allege that several dozen civilians and fighters have been killed in the latest clashes between Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups in central Ethiopia.
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9/6/2022 10:39:42 PM
Gunmen killed more than 60 people in Ethiopia's restive Oromia region at the end of August, a state-affiliated but independent human rights watchdog said Tuesday.
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8/30/2022 8:28:24 PM
Tigrayan rebels said Tuesday they intended to advance further into neighbouring regions of northern Ethiopia but were still open to peace talks after fighting erupted last week and put paid to a five-month-long truce.
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7/5/2022 8:34:40 PM
An Ethiopian rebel group on Tuesday denied accusations it was responsible for a massacre of civilians in the restive far west of the country, and pointed the finger of blame instead at government-allied militias.
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6/24/2022 4:29:23 PM
An Ethiopian rebel group called Friday for an independent probe into mass killings in the west of the country, saying the government could not be trusted to carry out an impartial investigation.
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