Islamists reach out to Somali ministers amid mass exodus
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The supreme leader of Somalia's Islamists has invited ministers who have resigned from the transitional government to join his movement and lashed out at embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi for failing to govern the shattered African nation.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, stamping his authority on a government seeking to reassert itself in the chaotic nation after driving out rival Islamists.
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Islamists and opposition leaders meet in Eritrea to forge a common front against Somalia's government.
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Somalia's PM warns Islamists that Ethiopia and Kenya will help his government in case of attack.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or be forced out.
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Somali Islamists, who are in charge of the capital and other key areas, are becoming more radical and under growing control from an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said on Thursday.
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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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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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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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Both sides in the Somali conflict play down the significance of a deadline by Islamists for an attack.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia's radical Islamic militia grew into deadly violence yesterday in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said on a visit to London that he was ready to talk with any moderate Islamists to prevent further violence and bloodshed in the wartorn country.
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Somalia's exiled cabinet is discusses the security situation in  Mogadishu after the assassination of the police chief.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist battlewagons moved   closer to the strategic Somali port of Kismayo, local officials   said on Friday, but Islamists denied any attempt to seize the   city and expand their territorial gains in the south.
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About 10,000 people fled the Somali capital in the last week alone, and the exodus sparked by fighting continues, the United Nations said Monday.
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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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.