African leaders mull Somali force
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African leaders consider requests to contribute to a peacekeeping force for Somalia at the AU summit.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council yesterday endorsed African peacekeepers to help prop up the interim government in chaotic Somalia, but also urged the authorities to pursue peace talks with their Islamist rivals.
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An African Union team visits Somalia on Monday to test the waters for deploying a peacekeeping force.
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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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Somali Islamist forces backed by 4,000 foreign fighters are moving into position for an attack on the interim government's base, Somalia's prime minister said on Wednesday.
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As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western-backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.
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An African summit ended on  Wednesday with a proposed peacekeeping force for Somalia still  lacking firm commitments for thousands of troops.
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Somalia's prime minister urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to his country, but council members told him they wanted to see political progress toward peace first.
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African nations sending peacekeepers to Somalia should convince Islamists it is not an "invasion force", the UN chief says.
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Somalia&#39;s new president Abdullahi Yusuf is calling for outside help to restore security to the war-torn Horn of Africa country, which has been without a central government for 13 years.
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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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Several African leaders are gathering in Libya to try to find a solution to the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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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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The African Union vowed Wednesday it would not be deterred from sending troops to Somalia, despite a call by a firebrand Somali Islamist commander for an uprising against them.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 6 -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing an East African peacekeeping force to prevent an alliance of Islamic militias from overthrowing Somalia's fragile interim government.