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Kalkidan Yibeltal & Grant Ferrett Guinea's capital city has come to a standstill as workers take part in a nationwide strike.
BBC News, Addis Ababa & London The Guinean Trade Union Movement, an umbrella group of major unions in the West African country, urged public and private sector workers not to turn up to their jobs, starting from Monday.
Heavy fighting has flared up again in several parts of the Ethiopian region of Amhara, where government troops are battling local militia. The group of unions said it was demanding lower food prices, the lifting of internet restrictions and the release of a prominent media activist.
Artillery has been used in the latest clashes between soldiers and the Fano militia. Schools, shops and roads were empty in the usually bustling city of Conakry, news agency AFP reports.
The Ethiopian authorities have banned any movement on a road linking two cities - Debre Birhan and Dese - potentially signalling a major offensive. The army says it cleared another route, south of the town of Merawi. The strike comes a week after Guinea's military junta dissolved the transitional government - which had been in office since July 2022 - without providing a reason.
Residents who spoke The Guinean Trade Union Movement said the strike would be indefinite.
to the BBC have described Monday's clashes as “intense.”
Earlier this month, Ethiopia's human rights watchdog, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, said troops had carried out dozens of extra-judicial killings in the town. The government denied that civilians had been targeted.
It recently extended a state of emergency in the Amhara region.
The unrest began last year when the government in Addis Ababa tried to disarm the militia in Amhara after the end of the war in the neighbouring Tigray region.
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Why Ethiopia's Amhara militiamen are battling the army
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