A New Coalition in Ethiopia: Seven Armed Groups Hostile to the Government
The coalition includes the Oromo Liberation Army, Tigray People’s Liberation Front and Amhara Fano as tensions rise in Ethiopia.
- Seven Ethiopian armed groups, including the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army, announced the formation of the Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Alliance for Survival on Sunday to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
- The alliance unites factions excluded from the Pretoria peace agreement, which ended a two-year war but failed to include key players like Eritrea or Amhara forces, deepening regional grievances against the federal government.
- By Wednesday, Tigrayan forces had seized Alula Aba Nega International Airport in Mekelle, according to reports, while Fano commander Zemene Kassie read the alliance's founding statement on Sunday, formally uniting the seven groups.
- Prime Minister Abiy's spokesperson, Billene Seyoum, alleged the alliance has received Eritrean financial backing, an accusation Asmara has repeatedly denied, as the government grapples with escalating conflict and ethnic divisions.
- Observers question whether these seven movements with different histories and territorial claims can coordinate effectively, as the conflict persists through drone strikes and siege tactics that have hampered national stability.
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With the expansion of battles from Tigray to the Afar and Amhara regions and the formation of an armed coalition of seven groups to overthrow the Addis Ababa Government, questions are raised about the ability of this bloc to alter Ethiopia's balance of power, amid division in its objectives.
They were once hostile, but now they are joined by hatred of Ethiopia's Prime Minister: Seven militias want to overthrow Abiy Ahmed together, and this could have devastating consequences.
In the multi-ethnic state, seven groups have joined forces to form an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy, who blames Eritrea.
All against Abiy Ahmed: the rebels of the federal outskirts of Ethiopia join and turn their weapons on the political center of Addis Ababa. It is the new unified front that opened against the government led by the former military permier awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2019: an unprecedented front for diffusion and [...] The article Ethiopia, the pact of the 7 rebel signs to bring the attack to the government of Addis Ababa comes from Il Fatto Quo…
Just under four years after the end of the Tigray war, seven armed groups have allied themselves with the Prime Minister. The crisis could have consequences far beyond Ethiopia
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