Kewet district militia chief has been killed by Fano fighters in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Kewet woreda is situated in the North Shewa zone.
The head of the militia office, Mohammed Seid, was killed by gunmen on Monday, December 22. Aschalew Zewdem, a driver of the Woreda Peace and Security Office, who was with his manager, was also killed in the attack. North Shewa zone communication bureau has confirmed the death of Mohammed Seid.
The bureau stated that the attackers were the ones it called “peace haters and traitors”. Last year in the same Kewet district, Fano fighters assassinated Mrs. Milishu Bekele. Mrs. Milishu was working as the head of Kewet district administration. Reportedly she was pregnant.
North Shewa is the most unsafe zone for Prosperity Party leaders and government officials. Several have been killed by Amhara Fano militia fighters in this zone since 2023. Girma Yeshitila, a senior Amhara Prosperity Party leader, was killed in North Shewa in 2023.