Somali government forms Mogadishu rapid reaction force
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The Somali government has formed a new rapid reaction force to combat almost daily guerrilla-style attacks in the capital Mogadishu, the government said on Monday.
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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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Islamists and opposition leaders are set to join forces to try to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union peacekeepers to arrive in a city where the interim government and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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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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Uganda says it will start deploying its soldiers as part of a peace force in Somalia within the next two weeks.
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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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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia's radical Islamic militia grew into deadly violence yesterday in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims.
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The African Union agrees in principle to provide troops to allow the Somali government to be installed in Mogadishu.
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Somalia&#39;s new president Abdullahi Yusuf is calling for outside help to restore security to the war-torn Horn of Africa country, which has been without a central government for 13 years.
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Somalia's prime minister names a new cabinet, facing pressure to return home from their exiled base in Kenya.
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Somalia inaugurated a transitional parliament Sunday, taking an important first step toward forming a new government for the devastated country even as rivalries continue
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A Somali independent radio station reports coming under sustained gunfire from government troops
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Somalia&#39;s parliament approved a non-confidence motion against the country&#39;s new prime minister and his cabinet on Saturday, sacking a government sworn in less than two weeks ago in an attempt to end 13 years of anarchy in the Horn of
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists.
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A series of blasts hit the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Security was stepped up across the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday ahead of a major peace meeting seen as the interim government's best hope of strengthening its legitimacy in the Horn of Africa nation.