Amhara forces - The African Mirror

Jan

2023

Amhara forces withdraw from parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, army says

DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA'S army said forces from the Amhara region, who fought in support of the federal government during the two-year war in neighbouring Tigray, have withdrawn from a major Tigray city in line with an African Union-backed ceasefire. However, a humanitarian worker in the city of Shire said Amhara forces were still there in "significant numbers." It was not immediately possible to verify the situation on the ground. Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a guerrilla force-turned-political party that dominates the region, agreed on November 2 to stop fighting following talks. The withdrawal of Amhara forces…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

Support for Ethiopia army, Amhara against Tigray forces

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DAWIT ENDESHAW THREE more Ethiopian regions are sending soldiers to reinforce the national army in its fight against forces from the northern region of Tigray, regional officials said, widening a conflict that has so far largely affected the north. Officials from Oromiya, Sidama, and the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region said their forces had joined the army, known as the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), which withdrew from most of Tigray late in June. A fourth region, Amhara, has already been locked in conflict with Tigray since the war erupted in November. Both Amhara and Tigray claim the fertile…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

Ethiopia conflict heats up

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DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA’S war in the northern region of Tigray looked set to intensify as the prime minister signalled the end of a government ceasefire and the neighbouring Amhara region said it would go on the offensive against Tigrayan forces. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has recaptured most of its home region in the past three weeks after an abrupt reversal in an eight-month war, has vowed to retake western Tigray, an expanse of fertile territory controlled by Amhara forces who seized it during the conflict. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed abruptly pulled central government troops out of most…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

How ethnic killings exploded in Tigray

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KATHERINE HOURELD, MICHAEL GEORGY, SILVIA ALOISI ND BAZ RATNER THE screams of the dying gradually fell silent as the sky darkened. Around midnight, Berhane Gebrezigher, an ethnic Tigrayan, remembers lying in a ditch full of men who, like himself, had been shot and left for dead. He called out: "Is there anyone breathing?" When the sun rose, the old man faced a choice: die in the ditch or haul himself to the road. Painfully, he began shuffling upwards. It was mid-January, more than two months into an ethnic conflict that has convulsed western Tigray, an area of rich farmland in…