Blow to Somalia peace force
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Malawi denies agreeing to send troops to Somalia, in a fresh blow for the planned AU peacekeeping force.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force in Somalia will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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A peace forum in the Somali capital has been adjourned to allow delegates time to arrive, organisers say.
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At least nine Somalis were killed when a rocket fired at African Union (AU) troops hit a restaurant in an ambush that inflicted the first casualties on the peacekeepers, officials said on Thursday.
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Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government.
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By SALAD DUHUL MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic militants controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station Sunday for playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style regime.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somalia's parliament passed a motion of no-confidence against the new prime minister and his Cabinet yesterday, an official said, effectively sacking a government that had been expected to restore order to the country after 13 years of anarchy and war. The deputy speaker of the 275-member transitional parliament, Dalhar Omar, said 153 members voted against Prime Minister ...
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Both sides in the Somali conflict play down the significance of a deadline by Islamists for an attack.
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A Somali lawmaker bypassed the government and signed an agreement Saturday to end hostilities with the country's powerful Islamic militia, a symbolic gesture that is unlikely to have any real effect.
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Fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents killed several people in Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and residents said, in some of the worst clashes since a peace conference ended.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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Aid agency MSF withdraws its foreign staff from Somalia after three workers were killed by a bomb.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 -- The United States has finalized a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize a force of East African peacekeepers to intervene in Somalia to prevent the overthrow of the country's struggling government at the hands of Islamic militias. But some European...
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Battered Somalia is trying to reconcile its warring factions. But mortar attacks, boycotts and an expiring peacekeepersâ mandate leave little room for optimism.
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Islamic militants controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station Sunday for playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style regime.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said yesterday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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Somalia&#39;s parliament approved a non-confidence motion against the country&#39;s new prime minister and his cabinet on Saturday, sacking a government sworn in less than two weeks ago in an attempt to end 13 years of anarchy in the Horn of