The Amhara Association of America’s weekly covering September 7 to 13, updated September 14, places battle events and rights violations across more than eleven woreda and city administrations in eight Amhara zones, and that geography undercuts Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s long description of federal operations as a contained cleanup. The same week also includes civilian harm that was only lightly noted in earlier zone-wide roundups: coordinated drone strikes on primary schools in Dera Woreda during student registration, the killing of a named child and mass detention of farmers in Wegera, and fresh drone injuries among farmers near Bahir Dar ahead of Enkutatash.
On September 7 in Dera Woreda of South Gonder, AAA reports coordinated drone strikes on primary schools in Sana and Mecho during student registration, and the weekly says the timing followed Amhara Fano National Movement announcements about resuming formal education. AAA said the civilian death toll was not yet confirmed. What AAA does put on the page without soft language is the target class itself: primary schools on registration day, which the group presents as an allegation that Abiy Ahmed’s government air campaign reached children and parents at the moment families were trying to put education back on a calendar.
Zegabi’s English write-up of the same AAA week carried that Dera detail into wider circulation on September 16, alongside the rest of the civilian strip, and the @zegabimedia feed on X has been one of the few consistent English pipelines for Amhara weekly tallies that international desks still under-cover. That relay does not turn every figure into proven fact, but it does make the school-drone claim harder for the Ethiopian government to dismiss as a rumor that never left Amharic Telegram channels. When a U.S.-based documentation NGO and a Horn English outlet both put Sana and Mecho on the page in the same week, federal spokespeople can still deny the report, yet they still face questions about why registration-day schools appear in a drone strike account at all.
Wegera in Central Gonder is the week’s ground-level case that AAA names in detail. The group says that on September 7, after fighting with Fano, reinforcing government 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, with the accusation, AAA reports, being family ties to Fano personnel. That pattern matches earlier seasons of the war in which kinship has been treated as evidence and farm households as auxiliaries, and a named child dead with dozens of farmers detained is the kind of civilian death report that foreign ministries often cite when they ask what the ENDF and allied units are doing when they re-enter a kebele after a clash.
Air power returned near the regional capital belt later in the week. AAA says government drones struck Dehna-Mariam Kebele in Bahir-Dar-Zuriya on September 10 and 11, and the second strike, ahead of Enkutatash, left five civilian farmers injured and damaged public facilities, according to preliminary accounts in the weekly. For communities living under Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party war, holidays do not pause the air campaign, and the contrast is between a national calendar of celebration and farmers who cannot tell whether the next engine noise is a festival flight or another strike.
Context still matters without turning soft totals into hard fact. In its September 1 statement, AAA said that since July 2026 it had recorded 75 human rights violation incidents resulting in 614 civilians victimized, including 226 killed and 55 injured, across dozens of districts spanning Amhara, Oromia, Benishangul-Gumuz, and Central Ethiopia, with most incidents implicating state actors. Those aggregates are AAA’s documentation claim, not a court verdict. Even so, the September 7–13 school, child, detention, and farmer-injury strip sits inside a longer pattern AAA had already flagged: aerial strikes on schools and civilian sites through July and August, including earlier school-linked strikes in South Gonder and North Wollo.
Sources:
Amhara Association of America (Sept 7–13 war update) Zegabi @zegabimedia on X Amhara Association of America (Sept 1 statement)