He dislikes Hemeti because he is close to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and another of Issayas's bogeymen the UAE...

' The Eritrean organisation was set up in the early 2000s in Addis Ababa but appears to have been sidelined as relations warmed between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's President Issayas Aferwerki in 2017...

Regional concerns are mounting over the mooted quid pro quo between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi in which Ethiopia gets a port in the Gulf of Aden in return for recognising the independence of Somaliland which broke away from Somalia in 1991 (AC Vol 65 No 2 Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding')...

According to our sources Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland deliberately spread a rumour on X and other social platforms that Ethiopia would formally recognise Somaliland on 1 July as a way of putting pressure on the negotiators at the Istanbul meeting the day before...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's political shapeshifting has cost him popular support in the Amhara Oromia and Tigray regions leaving only those in power in Addis Ababa and the regional capitals closely tied to his fortunes...

ABIY AHMED AND HIS ALLIES The most powerful allies of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hail from the Oromia region where he rose to prominence before becoming the national leader in 2018...

It cannot accept Ethiopian troops after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a port deal with the breakaway state of Somaliland in January that the Mogadishu government regards as breaching its territorial sovereignty (AC Vol 65 No 2 Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding' & Vol 65 No 8 Puntland risks fracturing the federation)...

And the firm has previously worked for Abiy Ahmed the prime minister of Ethiopia and the Indigenous People of Biafra the separatist group in Nigeria (AC Vol 63 No 16 & Vol 65 No 4 Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign)...

EU ministers discussed introducing visa measures at a meeting on 17 April and were waiting for new commitments from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government...

A national plan by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government in February 2024 does not explain how to gather the required data from millions of small farmers...