Mr Abiy is facing a formidable challenge to his power from militias known as Fano - an Amharic word loosely translated as "volunteer fighters". The phrase was popularised in the 1930s, when ...
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Amharic, for example, is the working language of the country, and the patriarch, its influential leader, is an ethnic Tigrayan. The dissenting clerics said services should be held in the Oromo ...