... and major music outlets. Remembering Abraham Afewerki – Mr Music Ambassador
Born in Asmara in 1970, Abraham Afewerki left Eritrea in 1979 and, like many Eritreans at the time, went to the Sudan, where ...
... is PFDJ. PFDJ is the bureaucracy, it does not represent the ‘spirit’ of the government. As the leader of an authoritarian government, president Isaias Afewerki is responsible for everything his government ...
Freedom Friday sources in Asmara have today dismissed rumours circulating about the possible death of Issias Afwerki. They assert that the news circulating doesn’t relate to the reality that they are observing ...
... 400 conscripts reporting for duty. “We think it is highly likely that Demhit will carry out a door to door sweep to round up recruits,” said Sami (not his real name). Eritrea’s president, Isaias Afewerki, ...
Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki and several other ministers have been reported to the police for crimes against humanity in Sweden thanks to a new law that allows such crimes to be prosecuted in the ...
... the Afewerki regime. Considering the country's perilous economic situation, there would probably be some attempt to end the country's current international isolation. Exit Eritrea: How Could it all End ...
There is a demand for an Islamic Fatwa-like measure to forcefully remove Isaias Afewerki from power for what is termed as murderous atrocities he is committing on the Eritrean people and for willfully ...
How should IA’s ‘success’ of recent days be measured? Well if you are an airline you would measure it in air miles and conclude that IA has probably clocked up enough air-miles to guarantee him two jumps ...
…so IA is in New York?… good! Now he will realise that you can’t simply sit there and plead innocent because you are a new nation…. Now he will realise that there will be no one hailing him as the leader ...
However, geopolitical and security analysts were not persuaded that Afewerki is about to turn a new leaf. They argued that the Eritrean leader, whom a UN Monitoring Group report last month accused of ...
... reinforce its own power in the process. This is a rough but workable description of the experience of Eritrea under President Isaias Afewerki since the country's independence from Ethiopia in 1991, and ...
To mobilise against Ethiopia, the Eritrean resistance leader had to dip into the very darkest side of tribal politics. Once you have been to that dark corner, as Afewerki has, your mind and soul are too ...
The Isaias regime is in a dilemma. Its friends are getting fewer and fewer. It doesn’t want to offend the only “friend” it has in the region, even though the relation between the two despots – Beshir and ...
As early as 2004, Eritrea had a hard line stand against anything that was Islamist or Arabist, most of all Al Qaeda and Iraq. Here is how Girma Asmerom, the Eritrean Ambassador to EU, put it in his speech ...
There is already a general consensus among Eritreans that the civic and political opposition should be working closely with the UN Security Council and all other players making sure the sanctions are comprehensive ...
Isaias Afewerki led a guerrilla army that helped to overthrow the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991 and win independence for Eritrea, which the Red Sea country secured after a referendum ...
On 13 August, 2009, around 4:00 PM, in the vicinity of Mai-Ata’l, an assassination attempt on the President of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki,was conducted. In this failed assassination attempt, the president ...
Yakob Ghebremedhin was apprehended on the spot and the others fled before the police arrived at the scene of the crime. Those who fled will be tracked through CCTV footage. It is to be remembered that ...
... Isaias Afewerki, Office of the President, P.O. Box 257, Asmara, Eritrea.
Your Excellency,
Meskerem is a month of celebration and symbolises change, thanksgiving and renewal. It is also the month ...
... a renowned fighter (still in government - Secretary General of the Red Cross Society of Eritrea); c) Saba Hailu (the wife of President Isaias Afewerki)
Ms Fozia Hashim – Eritrea’s Justice Minister ...
... Afewerki’s grand military parade is, on the face of it, very odd. Eritrea is now officially at peace with Ethiopia; its neighbour Sudan is in transition to a civilian-led democracy; and its relations with ...
... be limited to 18 months. For Germany’s development minister, Gerd Mueller, who personally met President Isaias Afewerki on 24 August, his hopes go further and he predicts the introduction of “democratic ...
... taken as a cause for hope and celebration by Eritreans and Ethiopians alike.
However, it is most surprising to discover from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that he and President Afewerki have actually never ...
... reported (on May 3, 1993) that then-President Meles Zenawi “did not rule out confederation, a view shared by Eritrean leader Isayas Afewerki.” The second thing to say about this is that, on the merits, ...
... the process lacks transparency and remains completely hidden from the Eritrean public. It has been handled by few Eritrean officials. Precisely, the process is being controlled at the whim of Issaias Afewerki ...
... positive response on the part of the government of Eritrea to your government's call for peace. In particular, we mention the remarks of President Isaias Afewerki made on June 20, 2018 on the occasion of ...
... entourages.
Years ago, Meles Zenawi and Isaias Afewerki, whose families both hail from the Tigray region that straddles the border, joined the forces of their rebel movements against Ethiopia’s Marxist ...