Issayas Afewerki

Much was made of his recent exchange of notes with Eritrean President Issayas Afeworki which bypassed the EPRDF Executive Committee and the TPLF Politbureau both of which he chairs...

When President Issayas Afeworki heard of the deal he was outraged...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's claims to have resolved the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute (he had summoned both President Issayas Aferworki and Premier Meles Zenawi to Tripoli) were politely passed over but the Libyan leader still got some value for his US$3 million contribution to the summit...

Neither Eritrea' s Issayas Aferworki nor Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi are in a hurry to settle...

Washington is a different kind of victim: with its theory of the ‘New Africanism' it has seen Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the keys to regional stability and co-chiefs of the coalition against the Khartoum regime along with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda...

There Clinton and President Yoweri Museveni will be co-hosting a mini regional summit at which Presidents Daniel arap Moi Benjamin Mkapa Meles Zenawi and Issayas Aferworki are expected...

Premier Meles Zenawi maintains his personal friendship with Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki and recently told television viewers that bilateral relations remained ‘strong and satisfactory'...

Veteran guerrilla and Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki told Africa Confidential that fighting the Sudan government forces would require perseverance and innovation such as that shown by the Eritreans in their fight against Col...

Deputy Secretary General Lencho Leta a leading proponent of involvement in the political process was disowned when he tried to mediate a role for the OLF in 1994 (using the influence of Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki with whom he has good relations)...

(Arrests continue including on 7 June of Abdel Basit Abass Hassanein 57 an apolitical paediatrician in fragile health who was badly beaten and held incommunicado in a 'ghost house'); * fear of offending US Muslims and failure to distinguish 'Islamic' from 'Islamist'; * lobbying by some Islamic organisations and individuals; The tough Sudan line stems from three main areas of concern: * Ethiopia (and Eritrea) are viewed as key to stability in the Horn and Uganda (and Rwanda) as key to east and central Africa (dubbed in Paris the policy of the 'Young Princes' - Premier Meles Zenawi Presidents Issayas Aferworki and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Vice-President Paul Kagamé)...