Since August 2023, the Amhara region has lived under a near-total communications blackout while drone and air strikes have hit markets, homes and gatherings. Where the press cannot enter, civilian-documentation networks count. The figures below are drawn from the Amhara Association of America (AAA).
AAA breaks out drone and air-strike casualties in its monthly summaries. For the two most recent months on record, the toll is set out below — each line links to AAA’s published summary. These are aggregate monthly figures, not per-strike estimates: our live Drone Monitor maps individual strikes, while AAA consolidates the casualty totals.
01 · The tollDrone and air-strike casualties, early 2026.
This is not new. In its November 2024 summary, AAA counted 125 drone and air strikes between August 2023 and November 2024, with 754 civilians killed and 231 injured. The pattern has continued into 2026. (AAA, 2024 summary.)
02 · Method & limitsWhy these numbers — and what they are not.
We publish AAA’s figures rather than per-strike numbers we cannot independently verify. During the blackout, attributing a precise toll to a single strike is rarely possible from open sources; AAA’s monthly aggregates, built from in-country networks, are the most reliable record available. Treat them as minimums, not ceilings.
For the live, geolocated log of individual strikes, see our Drone Monitor →; for the full corpus, the reports index →.