Ethiopia Ally Is Somali President, Appeals for Help
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected president of lawless Somalia on Sunday and  immediately called for outside help to stabilize his broken  country, widely seen as a terrorist haven.
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Backed by the African Union, Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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Somalia&#39;s new president, Abdullahi Yusuf, called on the world to send peacekeepers to disarm the militias that rule his anarchic country while pledging his help to fight international terrorism.
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Ethiopia's foreign minister arrived in Somalia Saturday to mediate disagreements among the leaders of the nation's U.N.-backed transitional government, which is under pressure from an Islamic militia that the United States accuses of harboring terrorists.
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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 Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight, according to Western officials, refugees and defectors.
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Ethiopia makes preparations for a conflict with Somalia's Islamist group, the prime minister says.
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The United States said Friday it is donating 97 million dollars (69 million euros) to Ethiopia in recognition of the Horn of Africa country&#39;s &quot;strategic importance.&quot;
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As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western-backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.
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A U.S.-organized group of nations concerned about the growing power of Islamic militants in Somalia lent its support Thursday to the country&#039;s weak interim government and demanded unfettered access so aid groups can help its impoverished people.
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A request from Kenya's leader for the Somali government to leave their exiled home in Kenya falls on deaf ears.
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The breakaway republic of Somaliland says it will retaliate if Somalia's new president poses a threat to its border.
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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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Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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A grenade attack in Ethiopia's volatile Somali region on Monday wounded the local president, killed five people at a packed ceremony and sparked a stampede that left a further six dead, witnesses said.
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Somalia's embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi is in Ethiopia's capital for talks as he fights to retain his post.