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November 28, 2021
The largest jump in numbers has occurred in Amhara region with 3.7 million people now in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
November 25, 2021
The TPLF carried their war from Tigray Region into Amhara Region, but the suffering of the Amhara has not entered the official narrative.
November 26th, 2021
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday reported the increased humanitarian needs with additional large-scale displacement and loss of livelihood in the light of the spread of the conflict to Afar and Amhara regions.
November 25, 2021
Zelalem Lijalem, commissioner of coordination for the Amhara regional disaster prevention and food security program, said roughly a third of the region’s more than 21 million residents need emergency humanitarian assistance.
November 23, 2021
November 24, 2021
A coalition of activists from the Ethiopian American and Eritrean American communities affiliated with @HornofAfricaHub coordinated local actions across the United States and around the world on November 21 to demand an end to U.S. meddling in the Horn of Africa.
November 17, 2021
The United Nations Office Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that the ongoing conflict in the Amhara Afar and Amhara regions have resulted in large-scale displacements from North Gonder, Wag Hemra, North and South Wello zones as well as in and around Dessie, Kombolcha, Baati and Kamissie.
November 17th, 2021
“If someone is going to kill me in my home I’m not just going to sit there and do nothing”
November 16, 2021
The Amhara region’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission spokesperson, Eyasu Mesfin told BBC Amharic that people in North Wollo, Wag Hemra and South Wollo are dying due to a lack of food and medicine.
November 15, 2021
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October 25, 2021
"Facebook employees repeatedly sounded the alarm on the company's failure to curb the spread of posts inciting violence in "at risk" countries like Ethiopia."
October 25, 2021
Ethiopians and People of Ethiopian origins living in Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke- on-Trent, and Manchester in the United Kingdom have raised funds to help displaced people by condemning the terrorist attack on innocent people in the Amhara region.
October 23, 2021
"There is an estimated 4.5 million Amharas within [the] Amhara region under TPLF occupation with telecommunication blackout, no electricity, no access to humanitarian aid, or journalists," Tewodrose Tirfe, chair of the Amhara Association said.
October 22, 2021
"The whole city is panicking," a resident said, adding that people who could were leaving. He said he could hear the sound of heavy gunfire on Thursday night and into the morning,
Ethiopia Conflict
October 18, 2021
October 25, 2021
Fighting continues to rage in northern Ethiopia after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a major offensive involving thousands of troops against rebels from the country’s Tigray region earlier this month.
October 20, 2021
Since the withdrawal of the ENDF from Tigray in June 2021, the conflict has expanded to five zones in the Amhara region (North Gondar, South Gondar, Wag Hemra, North Wollo and South Wollo) and two zones in Afar (Zone 1 and Zone 4). This expansion of fighting has created an additional 1.2 million IDPs.
October 22, 2021
The U.S. officials also visited members of the Zenzelma IDP center and heard firsthand accounts and concerns of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Amhara region.
October 21, 2021
The Debre Berhan City Administration released a statement announcing that discussed various current affairs with the police and kebele administrators and reached many decisions including the imposing of curfew.
October, 2021
October 5, 2021