Ethiopia's Amhara region pleads for help with violent unrest after attempt to disarm local fighters
Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have asked the federal government for help as a local ethnic militia clashes with federal security forces NAIROBI, Kenya -- Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Thursday asked the federal government for help, as a local ethnic militia clashed with federal security forces, halting some flights to key cities and leading the deputy prime minister, in an unusually outspoken statement, to call the situation “increasingly grave.” The disturbances are “causing serious economic, social and humanitarian damage,” the region al authorities said in a letter to Ethiopia's prime minister asking the government to take “appropriate measures.” The U.S. Embassy in a security alert late Thursday urged its citizens in the Amhara region to shelter in place and warned against traveling there. Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when federal authorities disarmed the Amhara region al force as part of the recov...