Three police officers in Ethiopia's troubled Amhara region have been killed in the past two days by unknown assailants, local authorities have announced. Kurar district is located around 200 km from Addis Ababa. The Amhara region in northern Ethiopia has been in turmoil since an attempt in mid-April by the Ethiopian federal authorities to dismantle its "special forces", paramilitary units created outside any legal framework by many regional states over the past fifteen years. Amhara nationalists claim that the federal government wants to disarm only the Amhara "special forces" in order to weaken the region, which is involved in territorial disputes with the neighboring regions of Tigray and Oromia. Dejen and Shewa Robi are located in the south of the Amhara region, in areas close to the border with Oromia, the focus of territorial disputes between the Oromo and Amhara peoples, the two main ethnolinguistic communities in Ethiopia, which has around 80 of them.

Source: Ethiopian News July 05, 2023 13:43 UTC