Issayas Afewerki

To convince President Issayas Afewerki Ethiopia will probably have to withdraw its troops setting the stage for talks to bring the 1998-2000 war to a close...

The biggest beneficiary of the conservative Gulf Arab alliance has been President Issayas Afewerki who has gained an unexpected lifeline in return for providing logistical facilities...

At the same time Egypt is wooing the regime of President Issayas Afewerki in order to put pressure on Ethiopia to compromise on its plans for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which Cairo sees as a threat to the Nile (AC Vol 57 No 14 Dam fine)...

Long isolated in the Horn of Africa Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki is expanding his alliances and horizons...

Eritrean backing has been cut for a year at least we hear although Asmara’s renewed fighting with Ethiopia which attacked three targets inside Eritrea on 14 March could cause President Issayas Afewerki to resume support...

IGAD which Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki dismisses as an instrument of the USA supports sanctions against Asmara...

President Issayas Afewerki’s government said in November 2010 that it would exercise its right to a 40% stake in the mining project as per the terms of the original agreement with Chalice...

The Chinese government approved a December 2011 United Nations Security Council resolution that imposes stiffer sanctions on the regime of President Issayas Afewerki so as to squeeze a source of funding to the Islamist Al Shabaab militia in Somalia...

Al Shabaab cannot be ignored: that was one message from the bizarre encounter between Eritrean President Issayas Aferwerki and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala on 18 August...

Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki whose regime the UN last week accused of trying to blow up January’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa denies people in his country face famine and refuses to deal with aid agencies...