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Amhara Crisis: Is Ethiopia the Next Yugoslavia?

Simon Whistler · September 2, 2023 · 25 min video · Africa

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For outside observers, it was a crisis that seemed to blow out of nowhere. At the beginning of August, militant from Ethiopia's ethnic Amhara group swept into towns and cities, capturing key buildings. In the days of street battles that followed, scores of civilians were killed.

By the time government forces had re-established controls, some of the Amhara region's biggest cities were peppered with bullet holes. Coming just nine months after Ethiopia ended its civil war in Tigray, the burst of violence was shocking. It was an unexpected coder to a brutal conflict.

For some of those watching, though, it was more than an isolated upheaval. Instead it pointed to something that's been worrying analysts since 2020. The possibility that Ethiopia could collapse into a series of bloody ethnic wars.

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