In continuation of the interview he gave to the national media, President Isaias Afwerki said that despite attempts to prolong its stay in power through securing various types of external subsidy, the TPLF regime is heading to ultimate demise. He

Ethiopian soldiers backed by armored vehicles reentered two towns in southwestern Somalia, forcing Al Shabaab insurgents to withdraw, Radio Garowe reports.

Hundreds of Ethiopian troops and Somali militias led by Col. Barre Aden Shire reached in Bardhere town some 490 km west of Mogadishu, witnesses said on Tuesday.

Members of Somalia's federal parliament have criticized the continued detention of ex-Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed "Dheere" Omar by Ethiopian troops, Radio Garowe reports.

Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly control and monitor civil society in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance of the work of human rights

Somalia's treacherous political landscape is reinventing itself following the surprise resignation of Abdullahi Yusuf as president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), after four years in power that fueled the rise of an Islamist phenomenon.