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For the week of September 7 to 13, fighting between Amhara Fano forces and units tied to Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party government continued across a wide stretch of Amhara, according to the Amhara Association of America. AAA’s updated September 14 weekly report logged battle events and rights violations in more than 11 woreda or city administrations across eight Amhara zones: North Wollo, South Wollo, North Shewa, East Gojjam, West Gojjam, Awi, North Gojjam, and Central Gonder. Additional developments were recorded in North Shewa Zone of Oromia Region.

That geography undercuts the federal government’s long-running pitch that operations in Amhara are a contained security cleanup. AAA says civilian casualties were recorded in North Mecha (North Gojjam) and Wegera (Central Gonder), arrests in Wegera, and drone activity in Bahir-Dar-Zuriya. As with prior weeks, many battlefield casualty and prisoner figures in the file come from partisan channels and remain hard to independently verify.

In North Wollo, AAA cites September 7 fighting in Lasta Woreda after Fano units allegedly hit a regime ration convoy near Sorba, with more than 19 regime personnel said to have been taken to Lalibela Hospital. On September 9, AAA relays a Fano claim from Dawunt Woreda of heavy regime losses, the capture of over 150 regime personnel, and the collapse of a regime military division, along with seized weapons.

Those prisoner and destruction claims echo earlier pro-Fano reporting carried by Shabelle Media Network via allAfrica and should be treated as contested until confirmed by multiple independent outlets or official acknowledgment. South Wollo’s Kelala Woreda also saw reported fighting the same day around Tirtira and Liguama, with unconfirmed casualty counts.

Civilian harm sits beside the contested front lines. In Merawi Town (North Mecha), AAA says regime forces attacked religious students near Mahdere-Sibhat Kidist Mariam Church before dawn on September 9, killing at least one Ethiopian Orthodox student, according to preliminary accounts. In Wegera’s Bra-Tadewos Kebele on September 7, AAA reports that after fighting with Fano, reinforcing regime forces killed a 10-year-old boy identified as Temesgen Yehuale and detained more than 28 civilian farmers, including women and elderly people, in Senbetye and Bra-Tadewos under accusations of family ties to Fano personnel.

Air power again reached areas far from any single “hotspot.” AAA says regime drones struck Dehna-Mariam Kebele in Bahir-Dar-Zuriya on September 10 and 11. The second strike, ahead of Enkutatash, left five civilian farmers injured and damaged public facilities, according to preliminary accounts. On September 7 in Dera Woreda (South Gonder), AAA reports coordinated drone strikes on primary schools in Sana and Mecho during student registration, causing significant civilian casualties whose precise toll remained unconfirmed in the weekly. AAA argues the timing followed Amhara Fano National Movement announcements about resuming formal education.

Elsewhere in the week’s ledger, AAA records multi-day fighting in West Gojjams Wemberima Woreda with claimed regime deaths in the mid-thirties to forties; fighting in Awi’s Jawi Woreda that allegedly pushed regime units toward Mandura, Chagni, and later Fendika; North Shewa engagements in Berehet, Mida-Woremo, and Mojana-Wadera; and reported looting of farmers’ oxen and grain in the Sasit Cluster. Defections of regime personnel into Fano-aligned units are also alleged in the Shewa subregion and Central Gonder. Those claims, like the prisoner tallies, remain one-sided where independent reporters cannot freely verify them.

More than three years after the Fano war intensified in April 2023, AAA’s September 7 to 13 map is still a multi-zone attrition war, not a pacified hinterland. Contested Fano battlefield wins, schoolyard drone strikes, and the killing and mass detention of civilians in Wegera are the domestic ledger Abiy Ahmed’s regime keeps asking the world to treat as background noise.

Sources: Amhara Association of America (war update, Sept 7 to 13, 2026, updated Sept 14); Shabelle Media Network via allAfrica (Sept 11, 2026).