As with the Tigrayan dealings with Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki this would very much be an ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend' arrangement...
Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki allied with Abiy during the war to try and destroy his historic enemies in the TPLF blocking Tigray from becoming a regional rival...
This has increased the likelihood of Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki backing Debretsion's TPLF faction – given its opposition to the interim government in Tigray...
Consequently his poor relationship with Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki may deteriorate further...
There are indications Eritrea's secretive president Issayas Afewerki is planning a rare congress of the country's only legal party – the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)...
Once the news emerged Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki expelled the Chargé d'Affaires of the Sudan Embassy in Asmara to protest against what it sees as Ethiopian meddling and skulduggery with the UAE...
Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki was likely to fight any reassertion of TPLF authority especially in areas bordering his country and Sudan (AC Vol 63 No 19 Addis and Tigray return to the battlefields)...
As Sudan's war intensifies regional governments are staking out their positions: EritreaPresident Issayas Afewerki told both Gens Hemeti and Burhan that he was not happy about the prospect of an imminent conflict in March last year a month before the fighting broke out...
To consolidate power in his first year he turned decisively against the formerly dominant Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) allying with Eritrea's autocrat President Issayas Afewerki leading civil war with Tigray from 2020 to 2022 costing over 500 000 lives according to research by Ghent University...
In July 2018 Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki had said Ethiopia would be able to use Assab port as part of their grand rapprochement...
Hassan Sheikh saw that Djibouti and Eritrea would be natural allies against the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal and quickly arranged meetings with Presidents Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Issayas Afewerki...
Emirati interestAbiy may also be doing the bidding of one of his key patrons the United Arab Emirates which previously had a deal with Eritrea's veteran autocrat Issayas Afewerki to run bombing missions into Yemen from Assab...