Somalia MPs back Mogadishu move
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Parliament votes for Somalia's cabinet to relocate to the capital, as AU troops take control of the airport.
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Somalia's MPs are to meet for a confidence vote on the new cabinet, after rejecting the first nominations.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the inauguration of the transitional federal parliament for Somalia - an event which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, where negotiators have been hammering out a peace deal for nearly two years.
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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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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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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged 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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Ugandan MPs approve the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an African Union force.
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Somalia's parliament overwhelming approves Ali Mohammed Ghedi as prime minister, 12 days after sacking him.
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The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of an African Union peacekeeping force to Somalia, which could be followed in six months by a UN force.
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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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Lack of funds rather than insecurity has prevented Somalia's parliament from moving to the capital Mogadishu, where a curfew has been imposed amid a deepening insurgency, a senior official said on Saturday.
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MPs choose a new speaker, bringing Somalia's first national government in 13 years a step closer.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will be airlifted as soon as possible into Somalia amid rising violence that threatens the government's grip on power, an African Union official said yesterday.
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Members of a new Somali parliament, which is sitting in Nairobi, vote on Sunday to elect a president. It is the culmination of two years of talks in the Kenyan capital, aimed at ending more than a decade of lawlessness in Somalia.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Somali Islamists quelled a   women's protest against the takeover of Kismayo port on   Tuesday, as the interim government expressed hope the latest   tensions with its rivals would not derail peace talks in Sudan.
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Israel&#39;s parliament made a historic decision in backing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements.