Sierra Leone Takes Over Security From U.N.
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Authorities in Sierra Leone's capital assumed official responsibility for security Thursday from the dwindling U.N. peacekeeping force that helped end the country's civil war two years ago.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday arrived in the small west African nation of Sierra Leone on the second leg of a three-nation African tour.
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorized an African force to protect Somalia's government against an increasingly powerful Islamic militia, hoping to restore peace and avert a broader conflict in the region.
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Peacekeepers in Congo are prepared to help disarm Hutu rebels threatening Rwanda from Congolese soil to ease tensions between the two Central African neighbors, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Questions about new nation's security and the effectiveness of international peacekeepers surface after two recent assassination attempts.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed over security on Sunday to Iraqi forces in the last of four provinces it once patrolled, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq.
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The European Union has formally taken over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia-Herzegovina from NATO. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and NATO head Jaap de Hoop
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Sierra Leone counted votes on Sunday from a tense presidential run-off which went peacefully despite fears of violence, but both sides accused the other of fraud and intimidation.
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The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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Israel announced on Thursday that security in the holy town of Bethlehem in the West Bank during Christmas celebrations would be handed over to the Palestinian police forces.
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BELGRADE - In a major move to boost its military might, the European Union took over the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday.
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Voting began Saturday in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff, a ballot to choose the diamond-rich but impoverished West African nation's first new leader since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago.
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UN forces have been deployed to restore calm in Liberia&#39;s capital of Monrovia where sectarian violence sparked widespread looting and destruction.
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The UN renews the mandate for peacekeeping forces in Ivory Coast, which has been split in two since 2002.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - U.N. peacekeepers beefed  up security on Thursday in the Haitian city of Gonaives where  more than 1,000 people died in floods, after desperate  survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the western Sudanese region.
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The move appeared intended to stymie plans for a U.N. force to take over from the beleaguered African Union troops.