By using Tigray as a buffer President Issayas Afewerki's government has in federal eyes further insulated itself from external pressure...

He knows his allies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Djibouti President Ismaël Omar Guelleh and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki will help him do so...

For President Issayas Afewerki an Ethiopia distracted by war at home is far less likely to pursue port ambitions on the Red Sea...

Eritrea's veteran President Issayas Afewerki appears content with an uneasy equilibrium that limits Ethiopian federal authority in the north while also keeping its former adversary the TPLF boxed in...

Abiy raised the issue with President Issayas Afewerki after their 2018 peace deal...

President Issayas Afewerki recently spent five days in Cairo where one topic under discussion was whether Egypt's Red Sea fleet would assist if Ethiopia attacked Assab...

The accord is now unravelling: Amhara remains gripped by an anti-Abiy insurgency and relations between Abiy and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki have nosedived...

We hear the talks hosted by Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki's Saudi Arabia-aligned government focused on the Islamists' prospects of returning to power...

At the root of a nascent alliance so far mostly at cross-border community and activist level are two power struggles: within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) the party that has controlled Tigray for half a century and between Abiy and his Eritrean counterpart President Issayas Afewerki rivals for the role of regional caudillo...

Abiy's bonds with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan are strong meaning Addis would get at least tacit support from Abu Dhabi if his rivalry with former ally Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki exploded into conflict...