AU backs 8,000 troops for Somalia
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The African Union agrees to send 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia despite opposition from the Islamic Courts.
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The United States will endorse African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government in a draft resolution to be unveiled on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
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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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An African Union mission arrives in the Somali capital to assess security despite a protest against foreign troops.
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An African Union team visits Somalia on Monday to test the waters for deploying a peacekeeping force.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping  mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia in the first contingent of an African Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 6 -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing an East African peacekeeping force to prevent an alliance of Islamic militias from overthrowing Somalia's fragile interim government.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's government which is under increasing pressure from Islamic militants.
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Burundi deployed a second contingent of 92 peacekeepers to the Somali capital on Monday, to bolster an African Union force struggling to stem violence in the turbulent Horn of Africa nation.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping  mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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Twenty-eight candidates seek support from MPs to be Somalia's new leader ahead of elections on 10 October.
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Ethiopia and Egypt will each send  850 troops early in the new year to serve with a joint United  Nations-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, an AU  official told Reuters on Monday.
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The Security Council on Friday endorsed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur that calls on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.
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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 first African Union peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a cargo plane, the AU said.