Ethiopia: execution of “at least 45 civilians” by government forces. Since Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister in 2018, many areas of Ethiopia have been plagued by political and/or community violence, accompanied by numerous abuses perpetrated by the various camps.
About 90% of Amhara state's approximately 23 million residents belong to the AmHara community. The Ethiopian Parliament extended at the beginning of February for four months the state of emergency established in August 2023 inAmhara to try to reduce the Fano insurgency.