'Anti-terror force' for Somalia
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists in Mogadishu.
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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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Ethiopia's decision to send troops into Somalia could give the weak Somali government its only fighting chance of bringing peace to the anarchic Horn of Africa country. But it could also be just the provocation Islamic militants need to build support for a guerrilla war.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Somali Islamist forces and pro-government troops dug in on Wednesday on either side of a frontline in the divided Horn of Africa nation which has this week slid closer to all-out war.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, should begin this week.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct. 23 -- Somalia's newly elected president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of Africa country, a spokesman for the organization said Saturday.
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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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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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Australian prime minister John Howard proposes an anti-terror force which could be deployed elsewhere in Asia.
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Backed by the African Union,  Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday  to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council  delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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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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In Djibouti, US forces combat terrorism with civil affairs work. Will this be a model for a future US military command in Africa?
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town that Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said yesterday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless Ethiopian troops leave.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Thursday that U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation that many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States circulated a UN Security Council draft resolution yesterday that would authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's weak government and would threaten action against those who block peace efforts and attempt to overthrow it.
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The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of an African Union peacekeeping force to Somalia, which could be followed in six months by a UN force.