Rage and delight at Somali peacekeeper move
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Thursday that U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation that many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward   residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to   protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Residents of Mogadishu welcomed the news on Monday that a new Somali parliament had begun work in neighbouring Kenya, expressing hope that the chaotic Horn of Africa country
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Deadly gunfire and explosions wracked Mogadishu Monday after weeks of relative calm as the Islamic militiamen controlling Somalia&#039;s capital battled one of the last pockets of resistance to their hard-line rule.
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Somalia's Islamic Courts militia says it will defend the country against what it calls Ethiopian violations of its territory.
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Somalia&#039;s foreign minister and a representative of the faction that controls the country&#039;s capital signed an agreement Thursday that calls for an immediate cease-fire and confers mutual recognition on the warring parties.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: His mediation in Kenya shows up Washington's disastrous meddling in neighbouring Somalia
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A Somali Islamist group threatened on Tuesday to fight any peacekeeping troops sent to their country as African leaders struggled to put together an international force for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers in the violent state, as residents said on Saturday that rival Islamists had seized another town.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Dozens of Islamist   battlewagons advanced on the strategic Somali port of Kismayo   on Friday in what the interim government termed a violation of   a pact to stop military expansion in Horn of Africa nation.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces took over   Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo on Monday   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, an Islamist   source told Reuters.
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The first Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital early Tuesday to provide protection for the still struggling transitional government and to allow for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who intervened in the country.
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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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The first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - An explosion tore through a ceremony in Somalia on Sunday welcoming senior security officials to a southern port, wounding at least 20 people including a top police chief, witnesses said.