Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki has denied that his country stifles freedom of speech, just days after media rights group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) identified Eritrea as the most ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isaias Afewerki led a guerrilla army that helped to overthrow the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki calls the country’s development drive over two decades of independence “a success story.” “We have achieved a lot, and our culture has helped us a lot to create an ...

ADDIS ABABA – Eritrean state television has broadcast an interview with President Isaias Afewerki to quash speculation about his health after days of absence from public view. Rumours about the fate ...

Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea's president, who recently marked 32 years in power, has long defied expectations. Isaias Afwerki now spends much of his ...

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 ...