Issayas Afewerki

After more than a decade complaining that they are the wronged party top Ethiopian officials busily explain their new campaign to overthrow the neighbouring regime of President Issayas Afewerki (AC Vol 52 No 7)...

On 12 March Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi once an ideological and military ally of President Issayas Aferwerki promised to work ‘politically or through other means’ towards ‘changing Eritrea’s policies or its government’...

The Eritrean President and leader of the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice Issayas Afewerki has long sought to retain a closed economy and prevent non-Eritrean involvement in his single-party republic...

’ This used to be President Issayas Afewerki’s customary response to interest in his country’s considerable mineral resources...

When asked about the prospect of elections Tesfamicael said the ‘visionary’ President Issayas Afewerki was ‘not going to copy the model of any country’ and that a ‘grassroots’ movement would be nurtured before elections were held...

The prime mover the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) has secured support from Ethiopia and is buoyed by the momentum of the United Nations’ sanctions against President Issayas Afewerki’s regime in December 2009 (AC Vol 51 No 5)...

Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki’s immediate response was one of shock...

Menkerios is an Eritrean former Ambassador to Ethiopia who broke with President Issayas Afewerki and rose rapidly through the UN system after working in Congo-Kinshasa...

They seemed to be backed by President Issayas Afewerki’s government which blames the UNSC for failing to impose the border agreement drafted by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission in 2002...

New United Nations’ sanctions against Eritrea will have little immediate effect on President Issayas Afewerki’s support for Somalia’s Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen Hizbul Islam and their allies although policy choices are complicated by the current battles between militants from Al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam...