First AU peacekeepers arrive in Mogadishu
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali  capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union  peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government  and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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Thirty Ugandan African Union peacekeepers arrive in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, say local officials.
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Around 100 Burundian soldiers arrived in Somalia on Sunday as part of an African Union peacekeeping force trying to stabilise the war-torn country, an AU official said.
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An African Union military delegation has arrived in Somalia for a three-day mission to assess security before the planned deployment of a peacekeeping force, an official said Sunday.
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists in Mogadishu.
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Australian troops were due to arrive in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday in a show of force after the killing of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casuality under Canberra&#39;s tougher South Pacific security policy.
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The African Union will go ahead with a  fact-finding mission to Somalia on Monday to size up security  before a bigger African peace mission, officials said on  Sunday.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalia's government on Monday said it was lining up peacekeeping forces as the interim administration and Islamist rivals sought a diplomatic way to avert a war that many fear could engulf the region.
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s new transitional Parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing its first national government since 1991.
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A US Air Force transport plane landed at El-Fashir airport in northern Darfur bringing the first Nigerian contingent of a reinforced African Union truce-monitoring force to the troubled region, officials said.
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The African Union says its first contingent of peacekeepers for the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur will be deployed this weekend.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of 23,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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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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Security was stepped up across the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday ahead of a major peace meeting seen as the interim government's best hope of strengthening its legitimacy in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Nigerian troops have begun arriving in Sudan to form part of an African Union (AU) force that will protect monitors observing a ceasefire between rebels and the Sudanese government.
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The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.