Post falsely claims state of emergency declared in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

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Post falsely claims state of emergency declared in Ethiopia’s Amhara region
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Was there a three-month state of emergency declared in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region? No, ToleraGemta found no such announcement was made, and the image included in the post, showing armed men, was taken in Addis Ababa, not the Amhara region.

), a state of emergency can be declared by the federal council of ministers and approved by parliament.

It can be declared due to “external invasion, a breakdown of law, occurrence of natural disaster or epidemic”. Once approved, it is effective for six months, and can be renewed by a two-thirds majority vote of parliament.in November 2021 during the war in northern Ethiopia and lifted in January 2022, before it reached expiration.

on April 27, 2023. Girma Yeshitila was assassinated while he was traveling with his family and bodyguards to Debre Birhan, a city about 100 kilometres northeast of Addis Ababa.arrested 47 individualsHowever, Ethiopia did not declare a state of emergency in the Amhara region at the end of April, as claimed in the post.A check on the Ethiopian government’s official websites and social media channels found no announcement about any new state of emergency as of time of publication on May 3, 2023.

Ethiopian communications minister Legesse Tulu confirmed to AFP Fact Check that no state of emergency had been declared in the Amhara region. “This is totally false,” said Legesse, adding that “there is no state of emergency in any part of the country”.

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