Fano leaders from the North Wollo area in Ethiopia’s Amhara region head to battle in the Lasta mountains. All of them, including Braun (centre), are former members of the regional special forces.

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 ...

The Amhara diaspora stood by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed when the Tigrayans were begging Washington for help not that long ago. Now they’re the ones warning of genocide. With clashes between ...

Ethiopian armed forces summarily executed scores of civilians in Merawi, a town in the Amhara region in late January and February amid fighting with Fano militia. Since armed conflict broke out in ...

Recent fighting between Ethiopian government forces and militias in the northwestern Amhara region has put Sudanese refugees at grave risk. For more than a year, unidentified gunmen subjected the ...

The fighting in Ethiopia’s second-most populous region in early August lasted a week and saw members of an Amhara nationalist militia called the Fano sweep into urban centres. Flights were suspended ...

Ambassador Biruk Mekonnen Demissie responds to a photo essay about the Fano insurgency in the Horn of Africa We appreciate the Guardian’s coverage of Ethiopia and the Amhara region. Accurate and ...

A certain individual by the name of Sholomo Molla recently published an article that criticized the message shared on X/Twitter by Ambassador Ervin Massinga, the US Ambassador to Ethiopia. The writer ...