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Amhara state, Ethiopia: events and estimated deaths in January 2025

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UCDP recorded 55 events of organized violence in Amhara state, Ethiopia in January 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 258. The low estimate is 103 and the high estimate is 801. UCDP counts 32 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2024 was 22 events.

Among the 26 months with a report for Amhara state, Ethiopia, January 2025 has the 6th highest count of events. Amhara state, Ethiopia holds 32 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Ethiopia in January 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Ethiopia, January 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Ethiopia has each event.

Table 1. Amhara state, January 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (10 of 55 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based14013
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based17016
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based17016
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based16017
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based15016
13 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based16017
19 Jan 2025West Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based101013
20 Jan 2025West Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; CiviliansOne-sided111111
30 Jan 2025East Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; FanoState-based26026
31 Jan 2025West Gojjam zone, Amhara stateGovernment of Ethiopia; CiviliansOne-sided101010

In a few events, the high estimate of UCDP is lower than the best estimate, or the low estimate is higher. The site shows the figures as UCDP publishes them.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Amhara state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Fano51235
Government of Ethiopia55258

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Amhara state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202639P313PCandidate Events
August 202623P147PCandidate Events
July 202639P161PCandidate Events
June 202630P282PCandidate Events
May 202626P114PCandidate Events
April 202651P188PCandidate Events
March 202656P575PCandidate Events
February 202658P396PCandidate Events
January 202639P191PCandidate Events
December 202550157GED
November 202546686GED
October 202573416GED
September 202537591GED
August 202545240GED
July 202546131GED
June 202551244GED
May 202556199GED
April 202549505GED
March 202564499GED
February 20253366GED
January 202555258GED
December 202422103GED
November 202418134GED
October 202435331GED
September 202431232GED
August 20248142GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Amhara state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Amhara state, Ethiopia: events and estimated deaths in January 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/ethiopia/amhara-state/month/2025-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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