Seven Ethiopian armed opposition groups have announced the formation of the Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Alliance for Survival, a unified front aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The coalition — which includes the Oromo Liberation Army, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, and the Amhara Fano — comprises groups that had been excluded from a national dialogue process launched in 2022 to resolve decades of political grievances without violence. The alliance emerges as Ethiopia faces simultaneous armed conflicts in the Amhara and Tigray regions (the latter the site of a devastating two-year civil war that ended in 2022), deepening ethnic divisions, and what analysts describe as a structural absence of independent political institutions capable of containing the country's competing visions of nationhood.