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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Eritrea's president has made an appearance on national TV to dispel rumours he is either dead or ailing. "I do not have any kind of sickness," Isaias Afewerki said. He accused those peddling such ...

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 ...

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 ...