Providing key insights into current affairs, President Isaias Afwerki sat down with national media outlets on July 19, 2025. The wide-ranging first part interview delved into timely global and ...

Isaias decided to leave the ELF, leading his group into an alliance with other breakaway factions. An Eritrean tank destroyed in a battle with Ethiopian troops, near Barentu, Eritrea, May 20, 2000.

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki warned neighbor Ethiopia against launching a new war between the bitter foes, with tensions ...

Isaias Afwerki was the architect of the highly secretive and centralized rebel group called the Eritrean People Liberation Front (EPLF). This rebel group was able to defeat a Western and Soviet ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has issued a warning to neighbouring Ethiopia, cautioning against the possibility of renewed conflict as tensions escalate in the Horn of Africa.

The leader, Isaias Afwerki, secretary general of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, gave no date for the proposed referendum. By Craig R. Whitney Page 3 of 3 ...

Isaias Afwerki, the president of Eritrea— which borders Ethiopia and lies 20 miles across a strategic shipping canal from Yemen—announced that all independent media organizations were to cease ...

Guests: Isaias Afwerki President of Eritrea The UN is considering whether to send peacekeepers to oversee the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea. For much of the last decade, the two countries ...

When the UNSC imposed sanctions on Eritrea in 2009, many said that it was the beginning of the end of Isaias Afwerki. They expected the regime would immediately face a crisis and eventually fall.

The current unelected president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, has been in power since 1991. The diabolical dictator has outmaneuvered and outlived his political adversaries in the Horn of Africa for ...

Longtime enemies Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea officially declared an end to the one of Africa's longest and bloodiest border disputes Monday, the latest breakthrough in the whirlwind first ...

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