The Ethiopian government has admitted for the first time to secretly detaining at least 40 people captured in neighboring Somalia. The admission follows reports last week CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating hundreds of detainees held at Ethiopian secret prisons. Human Rights Watch has accused the U.S. of being the ringleader behind the secret prisons. The group described the prisons as a “decentralized, outsourced Guantanamo.” Ethiopia did not confirm the U.S. role but defended the interrogations as part of “the global war on terror.”