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

[Deeq A.]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- 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.”

Source: Hiiraan Online