President Issayas Afeworki deeply distrusts the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and grounded their helicopters...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
President Issayas Afewerki has no apparent plans for elections or real democratic activity and will not put on trial the eleven Central Committee members of the ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice held incommunicado since 2001 (AC Vol 46 No 22)...
After President Issayas Afewerki's government obstructed the United Nations Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia (AC Vol 46 No 22) Ethiopia built up its forces along the border...
Vol 46 No 22 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Indignant at what he calls blatant international bias against Eritrea in its border dispute with Ethiopia President Issayas Afeworki is restricting the work of the United Nations Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE)...
Between December 2001 and mid-2003 President Issayas Afeworki's government responding to Ethiopia's support for the opposition Eritrean National Alliance sponsored a series of attacks by units of up to 250 fighters based in Sudan...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
In Eritrea where President Issayas Afewerki runs one of Africa's most aggressive regimes over two million people will need relief food...
Vol 44 No 18 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
The tension provides a welcome distraction for President Issayas Aferworki: 18 September is the second anniversary of the arrest of eleven Central Committee members who accused him of dictatorial tendencies...
Anti-Eritrean feeling remains high along the border area reinforced by the presence among others of 4 000 Kunama people who fled Eritrea at the end of the war unjustly accused by President Issayas Aferworki who needed a scapegoat for the Eritrean defeat of betraying the Eritrean armed forces in the final Ethiopian offensive...
Meles might not survive if Badme centre of the 1998-2000 war were handed to Eritrea whose President Issayas Aferworki equally set on the town has offered bases to the United States - which declines to accept them because two US Embassy local employees have been detained without charge since 2001...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Internal and external support for President Issayas Aferworki will weaken further...