Some Tigrayans believe that Prime Minister Abiy and Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki want to obliterate the TPLF as a political force and also to destroy Tigray as a political-economic construct laying waste to its schools universities and cultural centres as well as its development projects...

The chorus of international criticism over the devastation in Tigray and the role of Eritrea may not worry Eritrean President Issayas Afeworki but it does concern many in Addis and beyond (AC Vol 62 No 7 Abiy gives first ground)...

President Issayas Afewerki shows no signs of listening to international demands for Eritrea's withdrawal...

This would be in line with claims by President Issayas Afeworki to Washington's new Horn of Africa envoy Jeffrey Feltman that his forces are now the key security actor in Ethiopia...

At the end of last month Fahad Yassin visited Addis Ababa we hear to try to persuade Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Issayas Afewerki to send troops to Mogadishu to prevent militias of the factions opposed to Farmajo occupying roads controlling access to Villa Somalia...

That shows President Issayas Afeworki's lack of interest in honouring a 16 April pledge to the UN Security Council to withdraw his troops...

Abiy and President Issayas Afewerki have already created the Horn of Africa Council of Ethiopia Eritrea and Somalia and are looking to get South Sudan to join...

As the fog around the conflict in Tigray slowly begins to lift Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reliance on the armed forces of his Eritrean counterpart Issayas Afewerki is becoming clearer according to multiple sources in Ethiopia...

Two days after addressing Parliament Abiy was in Asmara briefing Eritrean President President Issayas Afewerki on his talks with Senator Coons...