Somalia's Opposition Regrouping, Planning
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NAIROBI, June 19 -- Far from being defeated, Somalia's opposition groups are politically uniting, strengthening, and planning a conference next month to hone their strategy for ousting the Somali government and the Ethiopian troops backing  it, according to a recent statement issued by the groups...
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Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.
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Somalia's new prime minister may by reappointed, and then put to a vote of confidence, officials say.
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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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Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament began voting Sunday for a new interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in a stadium in neighboring Kenya.
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Somalia's interim government and its   rival Islamist administration said on Monday they had agreed in   principle to create joint military forces, and to meet again   for more talks on power-sharing in the anarchic country.
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Over 40 delegates from the breakaway Somali territory of Puntland on Monday threatened to quit peace talks in Kenya, posing a new trouble to Somalia which has just inaugurated a new assembly to unite the country.
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The president of the breakaway republic of Somaliland on Saturday played down the rise of Islamic militants in the region but said if they tried to destabilize his territory, they would be treated as an enemy.
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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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The newly inaugurated Somali parliament is due to elect the speaker of the transitional assembly later on Wednesday. Twelve members of parliament have expressed interest in the position.
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A powerful Somali militia has said it was ready to fight Ethiopian invaders, sparking fears of an all-out war in the lawless African nation.
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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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MOGADISHU/LONDON  - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Thursday he would hold a national reconciliation conference soon that would be open to all clans in the country, still racked by violence after a December war.
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A U.S.-organized group of nations concerned about the growing power of Islamic militants in Somalia lent its support Thursday to the country&#039;s weak interim government and demanded unfettered access so aid groups can help its impoverished people.
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NAIROBI, KENYA - Somalian officials have started counting votes in a presidential election aimed at returning national government to the war-torn country.
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Next week yet another attempt will be made to restore stability in Somalia, a country torn by 15 years of civil war, military intervention, and foreign meddling.
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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.