Issayas Afewerki

President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea will not hold the 4th congress of his People’s Front for Democracy and Justice in 2007 (the last one was in 1994) nor Eritrea’s first elections originally promised for 1997...

Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki accuses Ethiopia of violating its pledge over their border dispute (AC Vol 43 No 8) and has taken the opportunity to hit at the Addis Ababa government by backing the SICC...

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...

In Eritrea where President Issayas Afewerki runs one of Africa's most aggressive regimes over two million people will need relief food...

They included Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni...

To the north Meles's cousin President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea is under fire from local and foreign critics for his autocratic style (AC Vol 42 Nos 19 & 20)...

As war-hero-turned-dissident Mesfin Hagos prepares to return home to near certain imprisonment for criticising President Issayas Afewerki international pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its recent moves to suppress dissent (AC Vol 42 No 19)...

The moratorium on air attacks agreed after June’s raids on Asmara and Makelle (and after phone calls by President Bill Clinton to Premier Meles Zenawi and President Issayas Afewerki) still holds...