Son of anti-US warlord seeks Somali presidency
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NAIROBI - The son of a Somali warlord who eluded and embarrassed United States forces a decade ago on Sunday stepped up his campaign to become president of a country his father helped plunge into anarchy.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday,  officials said, in the 14th attempt in a decade to restore  government to the lawless African 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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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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The son-in-law of the Kazakh president mounts a challenge to his rule after being sacked as an ambassador.
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The United States is considering  whether to have a diplomatic presence in Somalia, where  Islamists were ousted from the capital at the end of last year,  the State Department said on Thursday.
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An Islamic cleric accused by Washington of collaborating with al-Qaida said Monday he will only support a government based on Islam in his new role as head of a militia that controls Somalia&#039;s capital and much of the country&#039;s south.
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A political drama is being played out between the president and a son-in-law with presidential aspirations.
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The interim President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf, tells the BBC how he escaped an assassination attempt.
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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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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces were poised to   take over Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, witnesses and   officials said on Sunday.
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The son of Egypt's president urged the nation to consider developing nuclear energy, a proposal that could help establish his own credentials as a serious politician and publicly distance him from the United States.
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After years of anarchy, Somalia is poised to set up a new parliament which will elect a president.
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The father of a British man held at Guantanamo Bay will meet American Embassy officials next week to seek permission to fly out and visit his son.
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Somali officials began counting votes  cast by lawmakers Sunday in a presidential election aimed at  returning national government to the chaotic Horn of Africa  state for the first time in 13 years.
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Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington condemned their threat to attack Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government.
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Togo's armed forces said Faure Gnassingbe,  the son of former president Gnassingbe Eyadema, would assume  power in the West African country following the death of his  father earlier on Saturday.