Amhara Region
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Sep 30, 2026
Mohamed HassanHOST
Fighting between the military and a coalition of armed groups has intensified in the past week.
Mohamed HassanHOST
The conflict has spread from Tigray to the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions.
Mohamed HassanHOST
There have been new Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire across the Gaza Strip.
Mohamed HassanHOST
One woman's been killed.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
So that's the first front.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
The second front is located in southern Tigray Zone in Tigray and in Wag Hemra and North Well Zone in Amhara region.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
And in this area, TPLF or TDF is fighting alongside FNM, Afar militia, against government forces.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
So we have two fronts which are still very active, and the latest news is that the government managed to regain control of Sakota, which is located in Wag Hemra Zone in Amhara region and Alamata and the surrounding area in southern Tigray Zone.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
While TDF and Ogaden forces are in control of Abela and an area called Erepti in the first front zone, which is in Afar region.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
So in short, this is the update.
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Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
We are seeing realignment over and over, and this is kind of a third round of alignment, let's say, or the fourth round of alignment among these actors changing depending on the political development in the region.
Jalale Getachew BirruGUEST
I just wanna put that out there to be clear.
François PicardHOST
Yeah, and this coming as this kind of parallel universes, it's not just Tigray where there's fighting.
François PicardHOST
Over in Amhara, there was fighting in some parts, and in other parts, there's international football matches.
François PicardHOST
On Tuesday, Senegal beating Ethiopia 1-0 there.
Tom KennedyCORRESPONDENT
That's right, Francois.
Tom KennedyCORRESPONDENT
And the Amhara region has been a battleground for the last three years for a conflict between the Amhara Fano rebels and the federal forces there, let alone this latest escalation that we've seen over the last couple of weeks.
Tom KennedyCORRESPONDENT
But that, as you mentioned, did not stop the Senegalese men's national football team from traveling there on Tuesday afternoon to play against Ethiopia.
Tom KennedyCORRESPONDENT
I spoke to a source in Bayadar, the capital of Amhara, where that football match took place, who told me that he heard loud explosions on both the day before the match, so Monday, and also during the day of the match on Tuesday.
Tom KennedyCORRESPONDENT
It should be noted that France 24 can only confirm that those explosions were heard and not whether there was any damage done nor the targets of those explosions as of yet.
Nkechi OgbonnaHOST
Fighting between the National Army and opposition forces has intensified in northern Ethiopia.
Nkechi OgbonnaHOST
The conflict is taking place in Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions, where a newly formed opposition movement called Ethiopian People's Forces Alliance for Survival has reportedly captured strategic towns.
Nkechi OgbonnaHOST
In Tigray, where a deadly war ended in 2022, the regional state broadcaster Tigray TV went off air on Sunday.
Nkechi OgbonnaHOST
Privately owned news outlet Zara Media Network reported that the station was hit by a drone strike by the federal military.
Nkechi OgbonnaHOST
He now works with the BBC New State programme and was based in Ethiopia as a correspondent when the war broke out in Tigray in 2020.
Kalkidan YibeltalCORRESPONDENT
What we're seeing is the return of what appears to be an intense conflict.
Kalkidan YibeltalCORRESPONDENT
Currently, we're seeing reports of this intense fighting in the three northern Ethiopian regions, in Tigray and in the Bering Amhara and Afar.
Kalkidan YibeltalCORRESPONDENT
And from what we managed to gather, it seems it's a very fierce fighting.
EmmanuelHOST
Next headline, Ethiopia's military says it has recaptured a strategic town as fighting linked to the fragile Tigray ceasefire continues to spread.
EmmanuelHOST
The claim comes just days after Ethiopia's army said 272 Tigrayan fighters were killed in clashes in Amhara region.
EmmanuelHOST
Army leadership says it is exercising restraint despite fears the conflict could spiral into a new civil war.
EmmanuelHOST
A newly formed seven-group rebel alliance remains a wild card, bringing together factions with different grievances against PM Abiy Ahmed's government.
Kwangu Liwewe AgyeiHOST
And it became like really, really crystal clear to me that these were just not isolated incidents.
Kwangu Liwewe AgyeiHOST
There was a bigger pattern emerging in places like Tigray, Oromia, Amhara, and then other areas as well were becoming part of this wider crisis.
Kwangu Liwewe AgyeiHOST
And then the minute I heard about the alliance, I thought, this is one to watch.
Faisal Al YafaiHOST
Yeah.
Alan BoswellGUEST
Now, Abiy, because he was new in power also, called upon a wider coalition to fight the TPLF at that time.
Alan BoswellGUEST
So he got Eritrea on board to help fight in Tigray.
Alan BoswellGUEST
He got the neighboring Amhara region, neighboring Afar region.
Alan BoswellGUEST
So he basically had Tigray surrounded, and that war ebbed and flowed, but by the end, the federal government and its coalition was nearing basically a military victory, at least to knock the TPLF out of power, and that led to the 2022 peace deal.
Noa LeviHOST
In related domestic news, former head of Mossad's intelligence division, Eyal Zir Cohen, has reportedly denied claims that Prime Minister Netanyahu received specific warnings before October 7 from entities like MBZ or Sofian Abu Zaid.
Noa LeviHOST
Separately, relatives of Ethiopian Israelis are expressing fear amid escalating violence in Ethiopia's Amhara region.
Noa LeviHOST
Reports describe restricted movement, gunfire and kidnappings affecting communities there.
Noa LeviHOST
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Faisal RobleGUEST
The last two, three days, heavy confrontations have taken place between the two sides, so the war has begun in earnest.
speaker_0HOST
What has triggered the latest escalations in Tigray, Afan, Amhara, despite the 2022 Pretoria-Pris agreement?
Faisal RobleGUEST
I think you touched it.
Faisal RobleGUEST
The Pretoria agreement's failure is the crux of the renewal of the conflict in the region.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
There's a new rebel alliance.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
Uh, the Tigrayan rebels are now fighting alongside rebels in the Amhara region, and they are widely believed to be backed by Eritrea.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
It's just been a continuation of three years of deteriorating ties.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
And so the breakout of war, a civil war, uh, didn't catch anyone off guard, and we're hearing reports of hundreds of deaths.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
Fighting is limited really to Tigray's frontier areas, uh, bordering the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
Unfortunately, all signs point to the fighting being set to spread Tigray-wide, uh, something that may mimic what we saw four, six years ago.
Zekarias ZelalemCORRESPONDENT
And despite observers pleading with the international community to intervene, you could say that a lot of them were too preoccupied with Iran or Ukraine, so a deterioration of the situation on the ground is imminent.
Alex de WaalGUEST
Over the last couple of months, there's been something of a creeping war, an undeclared conflict with low level skirmishes and a few clashes and drone strikes between the Tigray Defense Forces under the TPLF and the federal government of Addis Ababa.
Alex de WaalGUEST
And this crossed a threshold in the last week, and there were more clashes than battles, but fighting in four different locations on the borders of Tigray between Tigrayan forces allied with some of their former enemies in the Amhara region there, the Fano insurgency, and a group in Afar on the eastern side against Ethiopian National Defense Forces, another Tigrayan group, the Tigray Peace Force, that is more aligned with Addis Ababa and other sundry forces aligned with the government.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
There had been a peace deal in place before this.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
What's the broader background to this conflict?
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