Issayas Afewerki

IGAD which Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki dismisses as an instrument of the USA supports sanctions against Asmara...

President Issayas Afewerki’s government said in November 2010 that it would exercise its right to a 40% stake in the mining project as per the terms of the original agreement with Chalice...

The Chinese government approved a December 2011 United Nations Security Council resolution that imposes stiffer sanctions on the regime of President Issayas Afewerki so as to squeeze a source of funding to the Islamist Al Shabaab militia in Somalia...

Al Shabaab cannot be ignored: that was one message from the bizarre encounter between Eritrean President Issayas Aferwerki and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala on 18 August...

Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki whose regime the UN last week accused of trying to blow up January’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa denies people in his country face famine and refuses to deal with aid agencies...

After more than a decade complaining that they are the wronged party top Ethiopian officials busily explain their new campaign to overthrow the neighbouring regime of President Issayas Afewerki (AC Vol 52 No 7)...

On 12 March Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi once an ideological and military ally of President Issayas Aferwerki promised to work ‘politically or through other means’ towards ‘changing Eritrea’s policies or its government’...

The Eritrean President and leader of the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice Issayas Afewerki has long sought to retain a closed economy and prevent non-Eritrean involvement in his single-party republic...

’ This used to be President Issayas Afewerki’s customary response to interest in his country’s considerable mineral resources...

When asked about the prospect of elections Tesfamicael said the ‘visionary’ President Issayas Afewerki was ‘not going to copy the model of any country’ and that a ‘grassroots’ movement would be nurtured before elections were held...