ESCALATING STRIFE IN ETHIOPIA’S AMHARA REGION DISRUPT LEARNING, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
August 11th, 2023
Ethiopia’s Amhara region is engulfed in widespread conflict and with a state of emergency declared by the federal government on August 4 continuing, putting the status of thousands of students is in jeopardy as the unending strife threatens to disrupt the upcoming academic year.
This latest conflict to hit the country’s second most populous state (23 million people) involves fighting between government forces and the Amhara Fano militia fighting to control sections of the region has shattered peace only restored last November (2022). That marked an end to a ...
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