A nighttime curfew has been imposed and tensions have risen as a result of the murder of a security commander in a town in Ethiopia’s Amhara region.
Following the decision to dissolve the region’s paramilitary force in April, the security situation in Amhara has gotten worse.
Although each state in the nation had its own special forces, the government moved to integrate them into the military and police. As a result, deadly anti-government demonstrations started in Amhara.
The local security department’s leader, Abdu Hussein, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday, which led to the curfew being implemented in Shewa Robit town.
In Amhara, there have been three similar killings in as many days. In another district, a police chief and security director had previously been shot and killed.
The movement of people and cars is restricted after 18:00 local time in Shewa Robit, which is around 200 kilometres northeast of Addis Abeba, the nation’s capital.
The Amhara special forces assisted the Ethiopian army in putting down the Tigrayan rebels who had started their uprising against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed‘s administration in 2020.
A peace agreement was signed in November of last year, bringing an end to the hostilities.
