Vol 48 No 19 | ETHIOPIA The Ogaden's trickling sands 21st September 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 13 | SOMALIA Unlikely meeting of minds 22nd June 2007 However President Issayas Afeworki of Eritrea suggested that Ethiopia's role was delaying Amisom's full deployment...
Vol 48 No 10 | PARLIAMENTS Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system 11th May 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 9 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA The great gamble 27th April 2007 The Accord's security provisions are aimed at Eritrea and President Issayas Afewerki would like it dissolved...
Vol 48 No 9 | ERITREASOMALIA The Jihadists' friend 27th April 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 7 | UGANDA Rough justice 30th March 2007 Uganda's Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa visited Eritrea on 19 March to meet President Issayas Afewerki and try to scale down the number of enemies...
Vol 48 No 1 | EAST AFRICA The new frontlines 12th January 2007 President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea will not hold the 4th congress of his People’s Front for Democracy and Justice in 2007 (the last one was in 1994) nor Eritrea’s first elections originally promised for 1997...
Vol 47 No 25 | AFRICAN UNION Peace and security 15th December 2006 Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki accuses Ethiopia of violating its pledge over their border dispute (AC Vol 43 No 8) and has taken the opportunity to hit at the Addis Ababa government by backing the SICC...
Vol 47 No 6 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Tentative 17th March 2006 President Issayas Afeworki deeply distrusts the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and grounded their helicopters...