Mobile internet outages in Ethiopia's Amhara amid fighting, residents say


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Aug 2023

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Mobile internet access was down in parts of Ethiopia's Amhara region on Thursday, five residents said, following days of clashes between the federal military and local militiamen.

A simmering feud between the Fano militia and federal authorities, who were allies during the two-year civil war in the neighbouring Tigray region that ended last November, has burst into the open this week.

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