Issayas Afewerki

Ethiopia argued that the virtual border had no legal status while Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki claimed it meant the EEBC's mandate was complete and there was no need for UNMEE to keep watch...

President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea accused their sponsor the United Nations of trying to 'weaken the Somali resistance by dividing and weakening the Islamic Courts dividing and weakening the alliance and creating problems here and there...

After Djibouti complained that Eritrea had invaded President Issayas Afewerki responded on 19 May that this was 'a wild invention' with hidden foreign backing...

Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki's government accepted that line and again complained about Ethiopian occupation...

If it believes that the Abole oil site attack was directed by President Issayas Afeworki’s regime it can argue that it is the victim of an act of war and is justified in attacking Eritrea in self-defence...

However President Issayas Afeworki of Eritrea suggested that Ethiopia's role was delaying Amisom's full deployment...

The traditional Soviet-inspired one-party state survives only in Eritrea where there have been no national elections since 1991 and President Issayas Afewerki's People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the only legal party...

The Accord's security provisions are aimed at Eritrea and President Issayas Afewerki would like it dissolved...

In January President Issayas Afeworki sent a minister to Nairobi to ransom a general and several senior officers who had been caught trying to escape from Somalia across the Kenyan border...