“We were caught in the crossfire,” he told AFP, after being struck by a stray bullet. “In Addis, they told me that my vein had been cut and (my leg) would no longer function,” he told AFP. It came to a head in April 2023, when an attempt by the federal government to disarm the Fano and Amhara forces ignited the conflict. At a federal medical centre in Amhara’s capital Bahir Dar, Yoseph Debasu sways as he grips parallel bars, re-learning how to walk with his prosthesis. “Now with this new conflict added on top of it, the number of patients is increasing,” he told AFP.

Source: Ethiopian News December 19, 2025 21:56 UTC