With President Isaias increasingly viewing power as 'a weapon of self-aggrandisement' and surrounding himself with a sycophantic clique of military associates, the hope of Eritrea: Isaias Afewerki ...

Isaias Afewerki runs a one-party state accused of suppressing democracy Isaias Afewerki was elected president of independent Eritrea by the national assembly in 1993. He had been the de facto ...

Isaias Afewerki, president of Eritrea, in 2006 Getty Images . This is an installment in the WorldWatch series, "The world's enduring dictators," inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which ...

"Isaias Afewerki is in robust health," Information Minister Ali Abdu told the BBC. He blamed the rumours, which began about a week ago, on groups wishing to destabilise the country.

Five countries voted against the resolution, officially sanctioning Russia’s norm-shattering invasion that undermines the rules-based liberal international order. One of the five countries that ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet in Beijing on Monday for his Eritrean counterpart Isaias Afewerki, saying that China opposed sanctions imposed on the Horn of Africa nation ...

(New York) – Ten years after President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea ordered the detention of 21 senior government members and journalists who criticized him, his government should release the ...

The achievement of Isaias Afewerki’s regime in Asmara is to have used confrontation with its neighbours to entrench its survival. It is a political lesson that the international community still ...

In September 2001, President Isaias Afewerki - who had by then been in power for a decade - unleashed the full power of the state to crush opposition and dissent.

Isaias Afewerki was elected president of independent Eritrea by the national assembly in 1993. He had been the de facto leader before independence. Presidential elections, planned for 1997, never ...

Isaias Afewerki was elected president of independent Eritrea by the national assembly in 1993. He had been the de facto leader before independence. Presidential elections, planned for 1997, never ...