by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (July 2, 2018) Residents of twenty cities in the Amhara region held rallies in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his economic and political reform initiatives. The scene at the Bahir Dar stadium was like no other as tens of thousands of residents of the city and its environs gather, flying the Ethiopian tricolor. ...

ESAT News (May 2, 2018) Hundreds of Amharas who have been displaced from Benishangul Gumuz region have come to the city of Bahir Dar demanding the Amhara regional government to resettle them back to their birth places. The displaced say they escaped an attack by Gumuz. Most of the 527 people displaced over the past few days live on the ...

ESAT News (March 26, 2018) Nineteen people have reportedly been arrested in the city of Bahir Dar on Saturday by the orders of the Command Post, the authority in charge of the state of emergency declared in Ethiopia. They were accused by the Command Post of planning to form an Amhara political party, but the detainees say they had a ...

ESAT News (February 24, 2018) Clashes have been reported in Bahir Dar, a city in the north of the country, after soccer fans chanted anti-TPLF slogans in and outside the city stadium. No casualties were reported but stone throwing fans have reportedly clashed with security forces after they had left the stadium. Soccer fans of Bahir Dar City FC and ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2017) A bomb thrown into a hotel in Bahir Dar injured two people, according ESAT sources. The grenade was thrown into the Yohannes II Garden Hotel where a soccer team from Axum, Tigray had checked in. The injured were taken to the city hospital. A soccer team from Bahir Dar was viciously attacked in Tigray few ...