Africa is not short of examples of dictators who have acquired and/or secured and retained power through these divisive stratagems, and Afwerki, known worldwide as "the merciless butcher to his own people" is no exception.
We'll discuss how Afwerki, who instead of rallying public support, employs coercion, imprisonment, torture, intimidation, and killing to secure obedience, has made use of 'Divide and rule' strategies.
For instance, to hinder and hamper the emergence of an organized opposition against his oppressive regime, Afwerki has set the three highly populated highland regions (Hamasien, Seraye, Akeleguzay), which are predominantly Christian and of Tigrigna ethnicity, against one another by instilling mistrust among them. This evil tactic has served him to obstruct the realisation of any organised opposition for these three regions to fight their common enemy.


