Issayas Afewerki

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...

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...

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...

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...

President Issayas Afeworki deeply distrusts the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and grounded their helicopters...

President Issayas Afewerki has no apparent plans for elections or real democratic activity and will not put on trial the eleven Central Committee members of the ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice held incommunicado since 2001 (AC Vol 46 No 22)...

After President Issayas Afewerki's government obstructed the United Nations Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia (AC Vol 46 No 22) Ethiopia built up its forces along the border...