Nine more Somali ministers resign as Islamists widen control
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Nine more Somali government ministers resigned, citing the 18-month-old administration's &quot;unpopularity&quot;, while hardline Islamists widened their control in the centre of the war-shattered east African nation, officials said.
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With Monday's announcement of four Cabinet resignations, at least six Cabinet members are leaving the Bush administration.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman resigns.
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Somali Islamist forces backed by 4,000 foreign fighters are moving into position for an attack on the interim government's base, Somalia's prime minister said on Wednesday.
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The newly inaugurated Somali parliament is due to elect the speaker of the transitional assembly later on Wednesday. Twelve members of parliament have expressed interest in the position.
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Somalia's Islamic fighters have seized control of a strategic village near the Ethiopian border, widening their grip over much of the southern part of the country, the group said Saturday.
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Somaliaâs prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, resigned after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government.
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A Somali minister and militia leader calls on Prime Minister Ghedi's government to leave its base in Baidoa.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai named a new Cabinet yesterday, firing the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nation's first democratically elected president.
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Somalia&#39;s new prime minister is Ali Mohamed Ghedi, a Member of Parliament from the capital, Mogadishu. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced the appointment at a news conference in Nairobi.
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Somalia's parliament overwhelming approves Ali Mohammed Ghedi as prime minister, 12 days after sacking him.
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Somalia&#039;s hard-line Muslim militia forced hundreds of fighters who had been resisting strict Islamic rule to surrender Tuesday after some of the most ferocious fighting in the capital in months.
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Foreign minister becomes first former Islamist to hold presidency.
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Somali MPs elect an ex-warlord as speaker after sacking his predecessor for wanting talks with Islamists.
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The Islamic militia that has seized much of southern Somalia has advanced to within 12 miles of the only town still controlled by the country's weak U.N.-backed government, an Islamic official said Wednesday.
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Somalia's government is not in control of most of this war-ravaged country, and a radical Islamic group that was driven out last year is regrouping, a Somali official said Thursday.
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The Muslim leaders who rule much of southern Somalia claimed authority throughout the country Thursday, underscoring the weakness of Somalia&#039;s U.N.-backed interim government.