Somaliaâs Islamists and Ethiopia Gird for a War
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The inevitability of war hangs over Mogadishu, threatening to further destabilize the troubled Horn of Africa.
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Somali Islamists and pro-government soldiers fought in heavy clashes for a second day on Saturday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of skirmishing many fear will erupt into all-out war.
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Almost every day, Somalia's government comes under attack &#151; suicide bombings, roadside explosions, ambushes. Security forces have tried mass arrests and curfews, but to no avail.
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The Somali peace process that began in Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia&#39;s new parliament, which is sitting in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, is on the verge of selecting a president, and
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Somalia's Islamist movement told arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw its troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia's weak government yesterday, killing eight people after Ethiopia took another step toward war with its Islamic rivals in the country.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on more than 30,000 Ethiopian troops it said were in the Horn of Africa nation unless they left within seven days.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of this city, where hundreds of protesters were killed by police bullets after disputed elections last...
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Confidence in the transitional government is rapidly bleeding away as Somalia becomes a more violent place.
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In an Aug. 20 story saying Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia, The Associated Press erroneously reported the source of this information. It came from officials of a government-allied militia, not of the Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia.
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Ethiopia on Thursday welcomed the recent deployment of Burundian peacekeepers to Somalia and asked for more help from the African Union in its struggle with Islamist insurgents there.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force in Somalia will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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Islamic militiamen have consolidated their power in the Somali capital, but their leaders now have to navigate treacherous clan politics, the source of the country&#039;s 15 years of anarchy.
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About 100 Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest sign that Ethiopia might try to bolster this country&#039;s weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power.
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Heavy fighting killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Saturday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led insurgents in the worst battles for weeks.
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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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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.