Issayas Afewerki

The dispatch of the fact-finding mission by the notoriously prickly and reclusive President Issayas Afewerki was another win for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who has made sweeping changes since coming to power...

Unless Ethiopia unilaterally withdraws from territory identified as Eritrean by the international boundary commission there is little chance that President Issayas Afewerki will come to the table...

To convince President Issayas Afewerki Ethiopia will probably have to withdraw its troops setting the stage for talks to bring the 1998-2000 war to a close...

The biggest beneficiary of the conservative Gulf Arab alliance has been President Issayas Afewerki who has gained an unexpected lifeline in return for providing logistical facilities...

At the same time Egypt is wooing the regime of President Issayas Afewerki in order to put pressure on Ethiopia to compromise on its plans for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which Cairo sees as a threat to the Nile (AC Vol 57 No 14 Dam fine)...

Long isolated in the Horn of Africa Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki is expanding his alliances and horizons...

During a deadly drought in 2006 President Issayas Aferworki expelled American British and Irish non-governmental organisations from the country earning international condemnation...

After a failed coup in January 2013 President Issayas Aferworki moved to secure his regime by cracking down on dissent and radically restructuring the military (AC Vol 54 No 4 Issayas staggers a little)...

Once a close friend of President Issayas Afeworki Debessai was sent to prison for corruption released and then gaoled again...

Saudi Arabian securocrats are working closely with Guelleh we hear because they are worried by reports of visits by senior Houthi officials from Yemen and Iranian Revolutionary Guards to President Issayas Afeworki in neighbouring Eritrea...