Somalia PM says government surrounded
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Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said Tuesday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave.
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Somalia&#39;s parliament approved a non-confidence motion against the country&#39;s new prime minister and his cabinet on Saturday, sacking a government sworn in less than two weeks ago in an attempt to end 13 years of anarchy in the Horn of
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 22 -- Hundreds of Ethiopian troops were patrolling a strategic road that leads to the southern town of Baidoa, where Somalia's interim government is based, after a brief but intense firefight in the area this week, witnesses said Wednesday.
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The strife-torn African nation of Somalia has a new parliament, but conditions in the capital, Mogadishu, were considered too unsafe for its members to be sworn in there.
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Somalia&#39;s new president Abdullahi Yusuf is calling for outside help to restore security to the war-torn Horn of Africa country, which has been without a central government for 13 years.
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Insurgents unleashed two attacks against the Somali government and its foreign allies in Mogadishu on Tuesday, just hours after Ugandan peacekeepers assigned to tame the anarchic city landed.
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Gunmen fired rockets at a Mogadishu police station and Ethiopian troops in the latest in a string of attacks on government positions in the lawless Horn of African country, residents said on Monday.
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Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi survived a suicide vehicle bomb blast that heavily damaged his home Sunday, his spokesman said.
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NAIROBI, June 28 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday that his government "made a wrong political calculation" when it intervened  in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a fight against a growing insurgency.
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The leader of Islamic militants who have seized much of this chaotic African nation said Tuesday that the presence of Ethiopian troops sent to bolster Somalia's weak government has scuttled any chance for peace.
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Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government.
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Somalia's virtually powerless government said a cargo plane that landed at the capital's airport Wednesday morning was carrying weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control of much of southern Somalia.
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The Somali parliament on Saturday passed a no-confidence motion against the newly-appointed prime minister and his cabinet, according to an informed senior Somali official in Nairobi.
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Somalia&#39;s new prime minister is Ali Mohamed Ghedi, a Member of Parliament from the capital, Mogadishu. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced the appointment at a news conference in Nairobi.
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The newly elected president of Somalia says the country's businesses must disband their militias.
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Prime minister defends government's preparations.
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The Somali government has formed a new rapid reaction force to combat almost daily guerrilla-style attacks in the capital Mogadishu, the government said on Monday.