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    Ethiopia’s Amhara region pleads for help with violent unrest after attempt to disarm local fighters

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    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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.”

    thiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen attends a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 8, 2023. Violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia, leading the deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement to call the situation “increasingly grave.

    Pool Photo via AP, File / ” Ahmed Yosri

    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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 regional authorities said in a letter to Ethiopia’s prime minister asking the government to take “appropriate measures.”

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