Ethiopia opens embassy in chaotic Somali capital
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Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain.
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Somali government troops clashed with rival pro-Islamist fighters in a brief but fierce battle early on Tuesday in the south of the chaotic Horn of Africa country, a resident and the Islamists said.
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The first Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital early Tuesday to provide protection for the still struggling transitional government and to allow for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who intervened in the country.
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The strife-torn African nation of Somalia has a new parliament, but conditions in the capital, Mogadishu, were considered too unsafe for its members to be sworn in there.
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A six-strong team of senior Foreign Office officials were sent to Ethiopia on Saturday to step up diplomatic efforts to free foreigners feared kidnapped in a remote area of the Horn of Africa country.
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NAIROBI, June 28 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday that his government "made a wrong political calculation" when it intervened  in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a fight against a growing insurgency.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
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At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontations between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents, witnesses said.
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Fighting raged for a second day in the Somali capital on Sunday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led rebels in the heaviest battles for weeks.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within nine miles of the border with Ethiopia, heightening fears that fighting would break out between the two sides.
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As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western-backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.
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Violence in Somalia could spill over into the greater Horn of Africa region if the government does not receive urgent help in bringing about peace and stability, President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Monday.
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Ethiopia's decision to send troops into Somalia could give the weak Somali government its only fighting chance of bringing peace to the anarchic Horn of Africa country. But it could also be just the provocation Islamic militants need to build support for a guerrilla war.
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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Somali Islamists, who are in charge of the capital and other key areas, are becoming more radical and under growing control from an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said on Thursday.
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were  spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to  the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods  stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.