First AU peacekeepers arrive in Mogadishu
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, should begin this week.
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The first African troops tasked with protecting ceasefire monitors in Sudan's western region of Darfur have arrived in the war-torn region amid warnings from Khartoum against upgrading the status of the contingent to a peacekeeping force.
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A major peace meeting in Somalia opened amid tight security on Sunday, but was immediately postponed until Thursday while organizers waited for more participants to arrive.
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The airport in Somalia's capital is attacked with mortars as the first African Union peacekeepers arrive.
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Nigerian troops have begun arriving in Sudan to form part of an African Union (AU) force that will protect monitors observing a ceasefire between rebels and the Sudanese government.
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afrol News, 23 August - In Mogadishu, large crowds of Somalis celebrated the formation of the country&#39;s first parliament in 13 years.
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ADDIS ABABA - One third of troop reinforcements taking part in an expanded African Union peacekeeping force have arrived in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur, the pan-African body said.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after African peacekeepers started arriving to help the interim government restore order in lawless Somalia.
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Somalia's new government urges the UN Security Council to send some peacekeepers to help it end years of anarchy.
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorized an African force to protect Somalia's government against an increasingly powerful Islamic militia, hoping to restore peace and avert a broader conflict in the region.
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Uganda says it will start deploying its soldiers as part of a peace force in Somalia within the next two weeks.
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Heavily-armed Australian troops arrived in the Solomon Islands yesterday as the body of the first peacekeeper killed during a mission to restore law and order in the Pacific nation was flown home.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 22 -- Members of a new Somali transitional parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing the country&#39;s first national government since 1991.
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Around 100 Burundian soldiers arrived in Somalia on Sunday as part of an African Union peacekeeping force trying to stabilise the war-torn country, an AU official said.
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A Ugandan cargo plane carrying equipment and troops for an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia caught fire as it landed in Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said.
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.