Somalis rally against U.S. peacekeeping plan
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Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-American slogans on Monday at an Islamist protest against a U.S.-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country's tottering interim government.
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Somalia&#039;s nearly powerless interim government said Friday it would boycott weekend peace talks with the Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all the nation&#039;s south, accusing the group of civilian massacres and ties to foreign terrorists.
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The United States asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday to help prop up Somalia's shaky government with an African peacekeeping force that would exclude troops from bordering states such as Ethiopia.
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The United States will endorse African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government in a draft resolution to be unveiled on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
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A powerful Somali militia has said it was ready to fight Ethiopian invaders, sparking fears of an all-out war in the lawless African nation.
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The United States has called an emergency meeting of the Security Council to protest a Sudanese letter warning African and Arab countries against contributing to a proposed UN peacekeeping force for war-torn Darfur.
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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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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 -- The United States has finalized a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize a force of East African peacekeepers to intervene in Somalia to prevent the overthrow of the country's struggling government at the hands of Islamic militias. But some European...
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 2 -- A U.S. Navy destroyer launched an attack on foreign fighters in a remote corner of northeastern Somalia late Friday, according to a senior U.S. official, though details of the operation remained sketchy.
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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.
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The United States Monday welcomed the formation of a transitional parliament in Somalia, an African nation beset with ethnic violence and factional fighting.
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Somalia's Islamic Courts militia says it will defend the country against what it calls Ethiopian violations of its territory.
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East African leaders pushed ahead on   Tuesday with a contested plan to send peacekeepers to Somalia,   despite a military deal between the country's rival powers that   appeared to block foreign intervention.
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NAIROBI, June 19 -- Far from being defeated, Somalia's opposition groups are politically uniting, strengthening, and planning a conference next month to hone their strategy for ousting the Somali government and the Ethiopian troops backing  it, according to a recent statement issued by the groups...
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Thousands of people protested against U.S. soldiers involved in humanitarian missions in Muslim areas of the southern Philippines on Monday, saying the troops' presence could be provocative.
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The Islamic militiamen controlling the Somali capital broke up a wedding celebration because a band was playing and women and men were socializing together, witnesses said Saturday, describing the latest crackdown by a group feared to be installing Taliban-style rule in this African nation.
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The Security Council asked the U.N. chief on Wednesday to plan for the possible deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia to replace African Union troops.