Somali rivals optimistic on talks
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Senior officials from Somalia's key rival powers predict progress in talks due to start on Saturday.
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Early forecasts showed Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in a close fight on Friday with his main challenger after an election diplomats praised as smooth, despite sporadic violence and rigging claims by both sides.
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Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein on Monday said his government was open for talks with rivals to end years of turmoil in the Horn of African nation.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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Twenty-eight candidates seek support from MPs to be Somalia's new leader ahead of elections on 10 October.
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MOGADISHU/LONDON  - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Thursday he would hold a national reconciliation conference soon that would be open to all clans in the country, still racked by violence after a December war.
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Peace talks continued in Nigeria Thursday between the government and the leader of a militia group.
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Kabul - Militants who have threatened to kill three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan were due to open talks with government negotiators on Sunday, raising hopes for a peaceful solution to the 10-day-old crisis.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 30  â Somali reconciliation talks, seen as the best hope for peace in the war-wracked nation, ended on Thursday with the interim president urging insurgents and militias to swap the bullet for the ballot box.
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Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.
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Somalia's embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi is in Ethiopia's capital for talks as he fights to retain his post.
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Militants who say they are holding three foreigners hostage in Afghanistan say talks are about to open.
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Talks between Sudan&#39;s government and two rebel groups to resolve the nearly two-year battle resume Friday. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Somalia's new president Abdullahi Yusuf promises to reunite and rebuild the country after 13 years of war.
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Negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga re-started talks on Monday in a mood of national optimism that a political solution to Kenya's worst crisis since independence may be near.
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African leaders sought to reconcile differences between neighbours Chad and Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia&#39;s embattled transitional government at a regional summit in Libya on Sunday.
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A deal with Islamist rebels is the latest in a foreign policy pendulum that swings between aggression and optimism.