Issayas Afewerki

Now it seems that President Issayas Afeworki has outbid Premier Meles Zenawi...

Ismael Omar is on good terms with Ethiopia and Djibouti suspended diplomatic relations with Eritrea after President Issayas Afeworki criticised Hassan Gouled during Organisation of African Unity peacekeeping efforts...

The moratorium on air attacks agreed after June’s raids on Asmara and Makelle (and after phone calls by President Bill Clinton to Premier Meles Zenawi and President Issayas Afewerki) still holds...

He also speaks frequently to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Eritrea's Issayas Afeworki and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi...

Idriss Déby Mali’s Alpha Oumar Konaré Niger’s Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (all on Comessa’s presidential council) plus Ange-Félix Patassé (Central African Republic) and Issayas Afeworki (Eritrea)...

The former Director of the United States’ National Security Council Anthony Lake met President Issayas Afeworki in Asmara on 7 October then flew to Addis Ababa and talked to Premier Meles Zenawi...

Much was made of his recent exchange of notes with Eritrean President Issayas Afeworki which bypassed the EPRDF Executive Committee and the TPLF Politbureau both of which he chairs...

When President Issayas Afeworki heard of the deal he was outraged...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's claims to have resolved the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute (he had summoned both President Issayas Aferworki and Premier Meles Zenawi to Tripoli) were politely passed over but the Libyan leader still got some value for his US$3 million contribution to the summit...

Neither Eritrea' s Issayas Aferworki nor Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi are in a hurry to settle...