Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki talks to Al Jazeera

Twenty years after the liberation from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Africa's youngest nation, has emerged as strategically vital to the stability of the region and the wider global agenda. Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton conducts a rare interview with Isaisas Afewerki, the president of Eritrea, and confronts him with the allegations about Eritrea's ties with Iran, Hamas, al Shabab in Somalia and rebel groups in Sudan and Houthis in Yemen.

Click here to watch the interview, or here for a blog entry by Dutton, describing her trip to Eritrea and the interview.