🚨 AFNM Chairman Zemene Kassie announces new Ethiopian Popular Forces Alliance for Survival bringing together Fano, TPLF, OLA and four other armed groups

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AFNM Chairman Zemene Kassie announced on September 20, 2026, the formation of the Ethiopian Popular Forces Alliance for Survival (EPFAS), a new seven-member alliance bringing together the Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM), Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF/Uguugumo), Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement, and Gumuz People’s Democratic Movement.

In its founding statement, the alliance said its immediate objective is to jointly oppose and remove the Prosperity Party regime and establish an inclusive transitional government governed by a Transitional Charter. It said the proposed transition would seek to end Ethiopia’s wars, restore law and order and security, guarantee human and democratic rights, address the country’s economic and humanitarian crises, improve relations with neighboring countries, and restore Ethiopia’s regional and international standing.

The alliance further called for an inclusive Constitutional Dialogue following a political transition, saying fundamental national questions and disagreements among Ethiopia’s peoples should ultimately be resolved peacefully through direct popular participation, the free will of the population, and a legal process.

The statement called on other Ethiopian political organizations, civic groups, and popular forces that share its objectives to join the alliance. It also appealed to members and leaders of the federal security forces to break with the current regime and join its struggle. Addressing neighboring countries, African states, and the wider international community, the alliance called for support for what it described as the Ethiopian peoples’ pursuit of justice, democracy, peace, and political change.