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Issayas Afewerki

Date of Birth: 2/2/1946
Place of Birth: Asmara, Eritrea


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Abiy juggles the truce with force

In the past few months aggressive Amhara nationalists who have a common interest with Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki in destroying the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have insisted they must hold on to western Tigray which they seized in the initial fighting...


Abiy’s war aims meet geopolitics

Strained relationshipEthiopia's relations with Eritrea a military ally in the war in Tigray are showing signs of fraying as Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki becomes closer to Amhara politicians and business interests...

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Kenya and US welcome Hassan Sheikh's presidential comeback

Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed would have preferred outgoing President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' to have won another term due to their security arrangements with him (AC Vol 62 No 21 At the mercy of friends)...


An Oromo rebellion constrains Abiy

It would also anger Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki whose troops are stationed in Western Tigray supporting the Amhara position and ready to do battle again with the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) to prevent them accessing supplies through Sudan (AC Vol 62 No 8 Eritrea entrenches in Tigray)...


Rivals set out their minimum conditions

With the war now at a stalemate they suspect Abiy is working to disentangle himself from Amhara hardliners and distance himself from Eritrea's Issayas Afeworki...


Military tactics dominate

With Eritrean troops massed along the northern border with Tigray region and Ethiopian troops Amhara militia and Addis Ababa's 'people's army' along the southern border Abiy and Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki may try to repeat their November 2020 campaign the supposed three-week 'law enforcement operation' (AC Vol 62 No 23 Rebel advance drives a diplomatic flurry)...


Rebel advance drives a diplomatic flurry

It would later emerge that the rebels including Issayas Afewerki's Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) were already in secret talks with Washington to facilitate the transfer of power...

He orchestrated the signing of the Tripartite Alliance in September 2018 drawing together Somalia's Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' and Eritrea's President Issayas Afewerki in a statement of intent (AC Vol 61 No 23 Risks on all fronts)...


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