U.S. eyes regional peacekeepers for chaotic Somalia
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The United States expects to unveil this week a draft Security Council resolution authorizing African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government, U.N. diplomats said on Monday.
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African nations sending peacekeepers to Somalia should convince Islamists it is not an "invasion force", the UN chief says.
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MOGADISHU -- A warlord urged Somalis yesterday to attack Ethiopian peacekeeping troops being sent to support the Somali government when it returns from Kenya this month, after last year's peace accord.
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An African Union military delegation has arrived in Somalia for a three-day mission to assess security before the planned deployment of a peacekeeping force, an official said Sunday.
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The U.S. Special Envoy to Somalia discusses the security situation in Mogadishu and the widespread 'lack of confidence' in the Somali government
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers, but the newly powerful Islamists who have seized control of most of the country rejected it.
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European Union experts say the United  States is pushing to get a regional peacekeeping force deployed  in Somalia and this could trigger a wider war in the Horn of  Africa, European Commission sources said on Tuesday.
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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Somalia's president agreed Tuesday to a national reconciliation conference to try to end 16 years of anarchy, under pressure from African governments considering sending peacekeepers to help him stabilize his country.
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Somalia's transitional government urged the Security Council on Friday to speed up its planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace African Union troops in the war-wracked nation.
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Islamic militants in control of most of southern Somalia warned Thursday that war will erupt over a U.N. decision authorizing an African force to protect the country's virtually powerless government.
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The U.N. Security Council called  on Wednesday for more funds for a hard-pressed African Union  peacekeeping force in Somalia and asked the U.N.  secretary-general to keep planning for a U.N. force there.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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Somalia&#39;s prime minister urged  the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to  his country, but council members told him they wanted to see  political progress toward peace first.
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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The United States must move urgently to help deploy more international peacekeeping troops to Somalia, where a U.N.-supported government is under attack from radical Islamic insurgents, the government's prime minister said  yesterday.
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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.