Eritrea has been loosely allied with Addis Ababa's enemies including the TPLF since President Issayas Afewerki and Abiy fell out following the end of the war and the Pretoria accord in November 2022 (AC Vol 67 No 3 Tigray's cold war with Addis heats up)...

By using Tigray as a buffer President Issayas Afewerki's government has in federal eyes further insulated itself from external pressure...

He knows his allies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Djibouti President Ismaël Omar Guelleh and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki will help him do so...

For President Issayas Afewerki an Ethiopia distracted by war at home is far less likely to pursue port ambitions on the Red Sea...

Eritrea's veteran President Issayas Afewerki appears content with an uneasy equilibrium that limits Ethiopian federal authority in the north while also keeping its former adversary the TPLF boxed in...

Abiy raised the issue with President Issayas Afewerki after their 2018 peace deal...

President Issayas Afewerki recently spent five days in Cairo where one topic under discussion was whether Egypt's Red Sea fleet would assist if Ethiopia attacked Assab...

The accord is now unravelling: Amhara remains gripped by an anti-Abiy insurgency and relations between Abiy and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki have nosedived...

We hear the talks hosted by Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki's Saudi Arabia-aligned government focused on the Islamists' prospects of returning to power...