on Friday Ethiopia's federal government declared a state of emergency in the country the announcement comes after days of clashes in the amhara region between the military and local armed Fighters a statement by prime minister ABI ahmed's office said it was found necessary to declare a state of emergency as it had become difficult to control this outrageous activity based on the regular legal system
the statement did not say whether the Restriction applied only in amhara or across the country fighting broke out across Ethiopia's second most populous region earlier this week between the whanau militia and the Ethiopian National Defense Force or the ndf the conflict quickly turned into a majo rsecurity crisis in the east African country whanau is a part-time militia with no formal command structure it backed federal
troops in a two-year Civil War in the neighboring tiger region that ended with the troops last November but the relationship has served over what some in the region say is disregard by the national government for amhara security according to reports Anonymous sources said that whanau Fighters and endf troops clashed near a town named debritabor on Tuesday and Wednesday on Thursday amhara's government
requested additional help from federal authorities to reimburse order in a letter to the Ethiopian Prime Minister the regional authorities asked the government to take appropriate measures that the disturbances are pausing serious economic social and humanitarian damage the state of emergency allows among other things for Roadblocks to be established transport
services to be disrupted curfews to be imposed and for the military to take over in certain areas reports said that residents informed that mobile internet remained down in the region reports for the said that Ethiopian Airlines had canceled flights to three of the four airports it flies to inamara now let's understand what exactly is happening in amhara and why the conflict erupted in the region intense fighting broke out
between the Ethiopian National Defense Force or endf and the whanau militia group early this week both forces had fought alongside Federal ones in the tiger conflict but now the federal government wants to centralize power the government said that it wanted to integrate local Defense Forces into the police and the national Army this sparked protests in the region in April protesters said that the government's plans to
integrate forces would leave their region vulnerable to attack from other regions the administration claimed that dismantling and integration of amhara's Special Forces is part of the federal government's peace deal with kigerian forces amhara has been gripped by instability since April when Federal authorities moved to disarmamhara Special Forces
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