Key warlords join Somali cabinet
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Powerful warlord Hussein Aideed is named as Somalia's deputy prime minister to complete the cabinet line-up.
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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 and a rival Islamist militia agree in principle to establish a national army.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai chose a new cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions and creating a new post to spearhead the fight against opium production.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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Somalia's interim government and its   rival Islamist administration said on Monday they had agreed in   principle to create joint military forces, and to meet again   for more talks on power-sharing in the anarchic country.
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Somalia's new prime minister says he wants to broaden his cabinet as he sacks his ministers.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigned on Monday after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government while it faced an Islamist insurgency.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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Islamic militiamen struggled to keep up with a flow of former rivals ready to surrender prized weapons Thursday, further cementing the radical Muslims&#039; position as the undisputed power in the Somali capital.
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Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet on Thursday, sacking the country&#39;s prominent defence minister and removing other warlords from top spots in a major reshuffle weeks after he was sworn in as the nation&#39;s first democratically elected president.
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Twenty-eight candidates seek support from MPs to be Somalia's new leader ahead of elections on 10 October.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a new cabinet which pushes out powerful warlords and installs technocrats capable of fighting drugs and driving reform.
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A group of Somali lawmakers met powerful Islamists in their Mogadishu stronghold after leaving the temporary capital because of growing security fears since last month's assassination attempt on the president.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday in  the 14th attempt in a decade to restore government to the  lawless African country.
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International mediators have begun swearing in members of a new transitional parliament for Somalia, nearly 13 years after the collapse of the nation&#39;s central government.
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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.