Somalia optimistic after President&#39;s inauguration
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afrol News, 14 October - Somalia&#39;s first President in 13 years, Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf, has taken his oath in a Nairobi ceremony and Somalia yesterday was re-granted its voting rights at the UN.
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With the election of its first president with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what it will bring is the question
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers, but the newly powerful Islamists who have seized control of most of the country rejected it.
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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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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.
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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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Residents of Mogadishu welcomed the news on Monday that a new Somali parliament had begun work in neighbouring Kenya, expressing hope that the chaotic Horn of Africa country
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SOMALIA, the only country without a national government, took a step towards ending its failed-state status yesterday as international mediators swore in members of its new parliament.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president amid tight security. There had been fears that supporters of the previous Taliban ruling regime would attempt to sabotage the ceremony in Kabul.
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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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Members of a new transitional parliament for Somalia were sworn in yesterday - a key step toward establishing Somaliaâs first national government since 1991.
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The new U.N. envoy to Somalia made his first visit to the conflict-wracked capital on Saturday to discuss the humanitarian needs of the country with government officials.
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LONDON -- Somalia's president said yesterday he will hold a national reconciliation congress within weeks that will be open to all clans in the chaotic country struggling to restore order after a December war.
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Members of a new Somali parliament, which is sitting in Nairobi, vote on Sunday to elect a president. It is the culmination of two years of talks in the Kenyan capital, aimed at ending more than a decade of lawlessness in Somalia.
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Hussein Aideed , front right, son former Somali warlordMohammed Farah Aideed smiles, Thursday, Oct 7, 2004 during a debate of Somali presidential candidates ahead of Sunday&#39;s presidential elections in Nairobi, Kenya.