AU troops to Somalia 'in weeks'
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.
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The UN special envoy for Somalia on Monday urged that the African Union (AU) contingent in the war-torn Horn of Africa country be beefed up and that a government of national unity be set up.
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Police backed by military support will arrive in Australian Aboriginal communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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Thousands of people massed in the capital Tuesday vowing to fight any foreign peacekeepers sent to the embattled nation, while a coalition of East African nations approved an ambitious plan to deploy troops in Somalia by early next month.
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The African Union will add 4,000   troops to its extended Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing   the number of police and soldiers in western Sudan to 11,000, a   spokesman for the AU said on Monday.
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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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The first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalia's government on Monday said it was lining up peacekeeping forces as the interim administration and Islamist rivals sought a diplomatic way to avert a war that many fear could engulf the region.
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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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LONDON -- Somalia's president said yesterday he will hold a national reconciliation congress within weeks that will be open to all clans in the chaotic country struggling to restore order after a December war.
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Somalia's Islamist movement warned arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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African forces should be fully  deployed to Sudan's troubled Darfur region by the end of the  year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to  house them, the new head of the African Union mission said on  Saturday.
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Somali Islamist forces backed by 4,000 foreign fighters are moving into position for an attack on the interim government's base, Somalia's prime minister said on Wednesday.
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The Security Council urged the  African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia  so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government  could lift its emergency security measures.
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Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up with provisions on Friday as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by rival Islamists in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's transitional government in exile said yesterday it would start moving back to Mogadishu by the end of the month, despite threats of attack by Islamic militants.