Burundi peacekeepers deploy in Somali capital
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A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.
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The first African Union peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a cargo plane, the AU said.
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi  Police in Burundi&#39;s capital Bujumbura fired tear gas Wednesday at crowds protesting against the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a United Nations refugee camp in the west of the country.
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Declaring that Somalia is at "a critical crossroads," Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on Thursday urged U.N. peacekeepers to take over from a small African Union force in the country's capital to help restore security and deal with terrorism.
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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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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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The African Union agrees in principle to provide troops to allow the Somali government to be installed in Mogadishu.
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The Security Council urged the African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government could lift its emergency security measures.
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Thirty Ugandan African Union peacekeepers arrive in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, say local officials.
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Somalia's government has formed an anti-terror unit trained by Ethiopian troops to quell growing unrest in the capital and a senior defense official said it went into operation on Monday.
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Somalia's interim government voted on Wednesday to support a U.S. proposal that would let east African peacekeepers deploy in the violent state, but the rival Islamist movement said that would trigger a war.
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The first African Union peacekeepers  arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a  cargo plane, the AU said.
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Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia in the first contingent of an African Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation.
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At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces with machine   guns mounted on pick-up trucks took over the strategic Somali   port of Kismayo overnight on Monday without firing a shot,   extending their grip on the south, witnesses said.
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The arrival of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Tuesday was marked by some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, highlighting the huge task facing the African Union force in Somalia.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.