Seven Ethiopian armed groups announce they have formed a coalition, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival, pledging to act against the government led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The groups announce the alliance in a public statement and present a common political and military agenda.
Outlets describe the alliance as bringing together forces with different geographic and ethnic bases. Reporting says the coalition includes groups with roots spanning from the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia to the Somali Region in the south. While one outlet emphasizes the breadth of the coalition’s membership, another focuses more directly on the alliance’s declared intent to seek the overthrow of Abiy Ahmed’s government.
Both accounts agree on the number of groups involved and that the coalition is new, announced late on Sunday. They also concur that the alliance frames itself as an anti-government front, though the outlets differ in how prominently they highlight either the coalition’s diversity or its stated end goal.
