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Ethiopia announces arrests in tense Amhara region

A partial view of the Lalibela town, a U.N. World Heritage site, in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, January 25, 2022. [Reuters]

Ethiopian authorities have arrested people connected to "the security crisis in Amhara," the government said Saturday after imposing a state of emergency on the northern region following clashes between local fighters and federal troops.

The fresh unrest in Africa's second most populous country comes nine months after the end of a devastating two-year war in the neighboring region of Tigray, which also drew in fighters from Amhara.

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