https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/.../who-fano-inside... Who is Fano? Inside Ethiopia’s Amhara rebellion "‘I have been in the jungle, struggling for my people.’ By This is a headshot of Simon Vera, he looks at the camera and smiles slightly without showing teeth." Simon Vera
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/.../who-fano-inside... Who is Fano? Inside Ethiopia’s Amhara rebellion "‘I have been in the jungle, struggling for my people.’ By This is a headshot of Simon Vera, he looks at the camera and smiles slightly without showing teeth." Simon Vera "Independent journalist and photographer in East Africa, looking for the human story in news BAHIR DAR, Amhara" For the past 20 months, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been torn apart by a bloody conflict between federal forces and a coalition of militia known as Fano, who demand full Amhara control of all territory they regard as part of their homeland. It’s a war in which the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) has been accused of extreme human rights abuses, and indiscriminate drone strikes by the military have killed hundreds of civilians. The conflict is largely waged in the rural highlands, but Fano has also managed to penetrate urban areas – raids that have triggered a violent respons