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AFRICANEWS

Following the new civil society law of Ethiopia introduced last year, the number non governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country reduced by more than half, civil society registering ministry's report reveals.




The regional leaders also agreed to send 2000 troops to complete the 8000 troops the African Union promised to send to Somalia in 2008.

Leaders from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibuti and Somalia said the situation in that country is very dangerous and delicate and that could see the weak western backed transitional federal government eventually being overwhelmed by radical Islamist militia groups that control large portions of the capital.

Somali President Sheikh Shariff whose pictures were flashed in the state broadcaster website in military uniform leading a group of soldiers in the front lines against the Islamist militia is said to have pleaded with his counterparts to save his government which is at imminent risk of being toppled by the radicals.

The leaders have also discussed the infighting in the transitional federal government that has seen the resignation of four cabinet ministers last month, Shariff’s counterpart are said to have called on the TFG to end the internal feuds.