Dozens of Somali MPs leave govt seat, meet Islamists
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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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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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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since the war at the end of 2006 that ousted his movement from southern Somalia, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town that Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said yesterday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless Ethiopian troops leave.
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Somalia's parliament overwhelming approves Ali Mohammed Ghedi as prime minister, 12 days after sacking him.
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Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Somali Islamists quelled a   women's protest against the takeover of Kismayo port on   Tuesday, as the interim government expressed hope the latest   tensions with its rivals would not derail peace talks in Sudan.
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The new Somali parliament for the interim phase opened its deliberations yesterday in an important step in the attempt to end 13 years of chaos, in the absence of representatives for the Land Of Somalia ( northern west of the country) which had announced
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A team of United Nations officials have met with senior Somali Islamists, the first such talks since Muslim militias seized the capital last month from US-backed warlords.
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NAIROBI -- Members of a new transitional parliament were sworn in yesterday, a key step toward establishing Somalia's first national government since 1991. But a dispute within one of the country's main clans over its delegates threatened to scuttle the peace process, mediators said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The transitional president of Somalia narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when a car bomb exploded as he left a converted grain silo that serves as the nation's makeshift Parliament.
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Somalia's government is not in control of most of this war-ravaged country, and a radical Islamic group that was driven out last year is regrouping, a Somali official said Thursday.
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The Somali government took a fresh  step toward establishing itself on home soil on Sunday when a  second team of officials including a senior minister flew from  Kenya to Mogadishu to assess security in the failed state.
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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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Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Ghedi resigns after a long-running feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Somalia&#039;s hard-line Muslim militia forced hundreds of fighters who had been resisting strict Islamic rule to surrender Tuesday after some of the most ferocious fighting in the capital in months.
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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.