Dozens of Somali MPs leave govt seat, meet Islamists
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A group of Somali lawmakers met powerful Islamists in their Mogadishu stronghold after leaving the temporary capital because of growing security fears since last month's assassination attempt on the president.
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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
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi of Somalia resigned yesterday after weeks of mounting tensions inside the Horn of Africa nation's transitional government and a power struggle with the president.
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Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.
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Ethiopia's foreign minister arrived in Somalia Saturday to mediate disagreements among the leaders of the nation's U.N.-backed transitional government, which is under pressure from an Islamic militia that the United States accuses of harboring terrorists.
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Members of a new Somali parliament, which is sitting in Nairobi, vote on Sunday to elect a president. It is the culmination of two years of talks in the Kenyan capital, aimed at ending more than a decade of lawlessness in Somalia.
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The Somali parliament votes to sack the newly-appointed government of Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Ghedi.
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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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NAIROBI, Oct. 29 -- Somalia's prime minister resigned Monday amid pressure from neighboring powerhouse Ethiopia, faltering support from the United States and a power struggle with the Somali president who had appointed him.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces took over   Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo on Monday   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, an Islamist   source told Reuters.
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since a war ousted his movement from southern Somalia at the end of 2006, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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SOMALIA, the only country without a national government, took a step towards ending its failed-state status yesterday as international mediators swore in members of its new parliament.
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Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Ghedi resigns after a long-running feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Somalia's prime minister names a new cabinet, facing pressure to return home from their exiled base in Kenya.
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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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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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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.