Ex-Army Officer Elected Somalian President
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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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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired army general with a newly minted doctorate in economics, was sworn in Wednesday as Indonesia&#39;s first directly elected president
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Somalia's parliament overwhelming approves Ali Mohammed Ghedi as prime minister, 12 days after sacking him.
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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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A new dawn breaks over Somalia. The interim Somali Parliament convened a special session in Kenya and elected Colonel Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed, the self-styled leader of the autonomous region of Puntland, as the new interim Somali president.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday praised the inauguration of Col. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as transitional president of Somalia.
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Somalia's parliament votes for a new president  in a bid to restore government to their lawless nation.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected president by Turkey's parliament on Tuesday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history.
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The General Election Commission (KPU) officially announced here Monday that retired army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins Indonesia&#39;s presidential election ina landslide.
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The Somali peace process that began in Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia&#39;s new parliament, which is sitting in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, is on the verge of selecting a president, and
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Somali lawmakers began voting on Sunday  for a president in the 14th attempt in a decade to return  government to the lawless Horn of Africa state.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The transitional president of Somalia narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when a car bomb exploded as he left a converted grain silo that serves as the nation's makeshift Parliament.
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In an old grain warehouse spruced up with posters and vinyl flooring, Somalia&#039;s president and prime minister watched the swearing in of a regional governor this week, an event that looked like a small step toward government control of this anarchic country.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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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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Somali MPs elect an ex-warlord as speaker after sacking his predecessor for wanting talks with Islamists.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, should begin this week.