{"id":61658,"date":"2026-09-28T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alliance-for-survival-why-are-ethiopias-rebels-joining-forces\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:39:11","slug":"alliance-for-survival-why-are-ethiopias-rebels-joining-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alliance-for-survival-why-are-ethiopias-rebels-joining-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance for Survival: Why are Ethiopia&#8217;s rebels joining forces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven rebel groups from across Ethiopia have announced a new alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some were once rivals, others fought separately, but they now say they&#8217;re united by a common goal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, who are they, and why have they joined forces now, just as fighting has flared once more in the northern Tigray region?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Aaron Akinyemi and Bruno Garcez<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">\ufe0fEdited by Aaron Akinyemi<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Narration: Victoria Uwonkunda<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c6n45epzdgk8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven rebel groups from across Ethiopia have announced a new alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s government. Some were once rivals, others fought separately, but they now say they&#8217;re united by a common goal. So, who are they, and why have they joined forces now, just as fighting has flared once more in the northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61660,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61658\/revisions\/61660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}