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

The strikes were a response to “Operation Unity,” a coordinated campaign launched by Amhara Fano forces 22 days ago aimed at consolidating their resistance against the Abiy Ahmed’s federal government.

Awra Amba, Ethiopia – Aregash Nuru pointed at the rolling green landscape in Ethiopia’s central Amhara region ... after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attempted to dissolve regional forces ...

Late Wednesday, Deputy PM Demeke said that "the security problems that are seen in different areas of Amhara region are becoming ... Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in April that the decision ...

The phrase is used by the government to refer to the Fano self-defence militia that took up arms against forces they had formerly supported in the Amhara region ... Minister Abiy Ahmed did not ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (pictured ... had been treated for gunshot wounds at a hospital in the northern Amhara region, the latest indication that fighting has been intense.

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 ... orchestrated Abiy Ahmed's ascent to ...