Somalia president seeks reconciliation
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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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Ethiopia makes preparations for a conflict with Somalia's Islamist group, the prime minister says.
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Somalia's new government urges the UN Security Council to send some peacekeepers to help it end years of anarchy.
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NAIROBI, Kenya Aug. 22, 2004 - In a key step to ending Somalia&#39;s 13-year civil war, regional foreign ministers held last-minute talks Sunday with Somalian factional leaders to ensure all members of a transitional
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Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein on Monday said his government was open for talks with rivals to end years of turmoil in the Horn of African nation.
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Somali lawmakers began voting on Sunday  for a president in the 14th attempt in a decade to return  government to the lawless Horn of Africa state.
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President Musharraf says he wants reconciliation after his bitterest rival is allowed to return to Pakistan.
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Pakistan's President Musharraf urges reconciliation after his opponents win elections, but rules out stepping down.
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Saudi King Abdullah oversaw the signing Sunday of a reconciliation agreement negotiated by several Somali factions in an attempt to stabilize their country and battle the Islamic opposition.
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Somalia's president has flown to Ethiopia for a medical treatment a month after being hospitalized with a chest illness, officials said Friday, creating more uncertainty for his volatile 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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The prime minister of war-torn Somalia asks for UN peacekeepers to take over from the African mission.
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The president of Yemen on Monday called on Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia to join the Sanaa Grouping of Red Sea and Horn of Africa nations to promote reconciliation and peace in the region.
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Newly-elected Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed asked the African Union to deploy up to 20,000 troops in his country to help disarm tens of thousands of factional fighters and restore stability to a state devastated by more than a decade of lawlessness.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament began voting Sunday for a new interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in a stadium in neighboring Kenya.
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After eight months in hiding, the hardline leader of Somalia's Islamist movement attended an opposition congress in Eritrea yesterday that called for an immediate withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
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Battered Somalia is trying to reconcile its warring factions. But mortar attacks, boycotts and an expiring peacekeepersâ mandate leave little room for optimism.