New Actor: Seven armed groups form Alliance for Survival

Seven Ethiopian armed groups announced a joint front called the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival, known as the Alliance for Survival. They said they will act together to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and install a transitional administration under a charter.

Members are the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), the Amhara Fano National Movement, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (Ugugumo), the Benishangul Peoples’ Liberation Movement and the Gumuz Peoples’ Democratic Movement.

The bloc brings together factions that fought on opposite sides of the 2020–2022 war, including Fano and the TPLF. Leaders said they had been in talks for about a year, and the statement announcing the alliance was read by Fano leader Zemene Kassie on Tigray TV. Its groups are based in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz and the Somali region, covering roughly half of Ethiopia’s 12 regional states.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources