Issayas Afewerki

Abiy hopes Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki will use his influence with Egypt...

There have been thousands of casualties on both sides and among the Eritrean troops committed to the conflict by President Issayas Afewerki who shares Abiy's aim of destroying the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)...

This is intended to eventually replace IGAD which Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki has refused to re-join...

Abiy's chief foreign supporter in his Tigray strategy is Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki...

It would also require transparency over aims and policies which has not been forthcoming from a secretive agreement between Abiy and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki...

President Issayas Afewerki sent Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed to Khartoum on 14-15 November to underline the need to keep the border closed...

Either move would engage Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki the TPLF's arch enemy...

President Issayas Afewerki may live to regret his role in urging Abiy to remove the TPLF...

The reclassification of the refugees does not suit TPLF leaders who maintain their traditional hostility to President Issayas Afewerki...

That is especially the case since President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea – Abiy's peace partner though not a fellow Nobel recipient – is particularly keen to see the demise of his Tigrayan arch-enemies whom he blames for Eritrea's isolation...

Attention is focusing once more on last November's meeting of Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed one month after retired Brigadier-General Asaminew Tsige the leader of last month's alleged coup attempt was appointed head of Amhara's regional security...

Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki is believed to be acting on behalf of Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahayan (aka MBZ) the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates and key ally of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS)...