Somali MPs vote for president
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NAIROBI, KENYA - Somalian officials have started counting votes in a presidential election aimed at returning national government to the war-torn country.
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Somali presidential candidate Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, left, stands next to an unidentified election official, just after he had taken an oath on the Quran to abide by the election results, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004
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MOGADISHU -- The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia said yesterday he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south. Puntland President General Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears ...
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct. 23 -- Somalia's newly elected president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of Africa country, a spokesman for the organization said Saturday.
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Ethiopia's parliament voted on Thursday to let the government take "all necessary" steps to rebuff any invasion by Somalia's Islamists amid reports Ethiopian troops on Somali soil had died in a land mine blast.
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Somalia's newly elected president,  Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000  peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of  Africa country, an AU spokesman said on Saturday.
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Somalia's Parliament passed a motion of no confidence against the new prime minister and his Cabinet on Saturday, effectively sacking a government that had been expected to restore order to the country after 13 ...
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A Somali lawmaker was fatally shot outside a mosque Friday, the latest blow to a virtually powerless administration that has watched helplessly as Islamic militants have taken over much of the country.
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The new Somali parliament for the interim phase opened its deliberations yesterday in an important step in the attempt to end 13 years of chaos, in the absence of representatives for the Land Of Somalia ( northern west of the country) which had announced
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: A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in today as the new President of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a Central Government for the first time since 1991.
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Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is to hold a vote shortly to elect the country's new president.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday in  the 14th attempt in a decade to restore government to the  lawless African country.
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Moroccans voted on Friday in parliamentary polls expected to show gains for moderate Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message to voters seeking more vigorous efforts to fight poverty.
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A presidential election aimed at  restoring national government to lawless Somalia for the first  time in 13 years went into a third round on Sunday after no  outright winner emerged.
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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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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Sept. 18 -- Somalia's interim president narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Monday when a suicide car bomber struck outside the parliament building, officials said. The blast and a subsequent gun battle left 11 people dead, including the president's brother.
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Somalia&#39;s newly chosen president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has pledged to disarm militias and do all he can to bring security to the war-torn Horn of Africa country.