In a country long fractured by ethnic federalism and cycles of armed conflict, seven of Ethiopia's most powerful rebel groups have set aside their own rivalries to form the Alliance for Survival — a coalition spanning half the nation's territory and united by a single declared purpose: the removal of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government. The announcement arrives against a backdrop of wars that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, a fragile Tigray ceasefire, and a general election from which entire regions were excluded, raising ancient questions about whether a nation of eighty-plus
Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form alliance to challenge government
The 2022 Tigray war left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced millions; ongoing conflicts have caused mass casualties and displacement across multiple regions.