Issaias Afeworki is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Eritrea Spurns Border Talks With Djibouti
Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki on Monday ruled out talks with Djibouti after Eritrean soldiers last week opened fire on deserters crossing a frontier leaving nine Djibouti soldiers dead and dozens more soldiers wounded.
Eritrea to counter rising commodity prices
Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki used an independence day speech Saturday to warn that this government may impose price controls and import restrictions to counter rising world commodity prices.
Eritrea: U.N. border row mission 'dead'
Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki said Saturday the United Nations mission monitoring its disputed border with Ethiopia was "irrelevant and dead" and blaming the US for the impasse.
Ban 'baron of Eritrean dictatorship'
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Britain Wednesday to ban a London-based Eritrean minister seen as an influential hardliner in the Asmara regime and suspected of cracking down on the press.
Eritrea lures business to war-ravaged port
Its been a long time since the old bank in Eritreas main Red Sea port had a customer. Like much of the ancient city of Massawa, it was devastated by heavy Ethiopian bombing raids during its liberation in 1990 by Eritrean guerrilla fighters.
Media body awards jailed Eritrean
A media watchdog organization has named imprisoned Eritrean reporter Seyoum Tsehaye as its Journalist of 2007 to punctuate the bad state of press freedom in that country.
Sudan, eastern rebels sign landmark peace deal
The Sudanese government and rebels from the Eastern Front signed a peace accord Saturday that was negotiated with Eritrean help and is aimed at ending a 12-year armed conflict, Sudanese public radio reported.
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Iran has extradited a number of Al Qaeda suspects to Saudi Arabia in recent months and is also handing over vital intelligence on the network’s activities. The number and names of those extradited has not been released.
Egypt Roundups
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met on Wednesday with his Eritrean counterpart, Issaias Afeworki, to discuss "settling differences" among countries in the Horn of Africa.Issaias also met with Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
Mission Watch
Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki was in Alexandria on November 12 to attend the 32nd anniversary of the investiture of Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Church.
