In Ethiopia, the government claims to have “liberated” six major cities in the Amhara region from the “threat of bandits”

An emergency curfew has been imposed in the six “liberated” cities: Bahir Dar, Lalibela, Gondar, Shewa Robit, Debre Birhan, and Debre Markos. No official report of the fighting has been released for the moment.

“The cities have been freed from the threat of the bandits,” the federal government's emergency agency said in a statement, citing six cities, including the regional capital Bahir Dar and the holy city of Lalibela. “Defense forces and law enforcement agencies in the region are in the process of dispersing” the militia fighters, according to the Directorate-General for the State of Emergency, which indicated that some of them were hiding in relig…