The Afar National Unity Revolutionary Front (ANURF) is an Afar military group created by Ibrahim Osman Aliyu during 2025–2026.
Creation In mid 2025, Ibrahim Osman Aliyu (also known as Haji Ibrahim), an Afar politician from Berhale in Afar Region, defected to Eritrea. By August 2025, Ibrahim had organised 300 members of the Afar Special Forces and other supporters.
Ibrahim's group became known as the Afar National Unity Revolutionary Front (ANURF) by September 2026, during the September 2026 military conflict between the Ethiopian National Defense Force and the Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Coalition for Survival, of which ANURF was declared to be one of the seven member organisations.
Aims In late September 2026, during the 2026 Ethiopian offensive, Ibrahim stated that the fighting was "against the Prosperity Party, not the Afar people or fighter groups".
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