New Somali President Asks for 20,000 AU Peacekeepers
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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, an AU spokesman said on Saturday.
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Kenya's opposition leader called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.
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Nigeria&#39;s President Olusegun Obasanjo says the African Union is ready to send 3,000 troops to Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Sudan plans to double the number  of police in Darfur to 20,000, the country's foreign minister  said Tuesday in the face of fresh reports that marauding Arab  militiamen were still preying on stricken refugees.
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The first African Union peacekeepers  arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a  cargo plane, the AU said.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged U.N. member states on Thursday to provide critically needed aviation, transport and logistics units for the new African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.
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: A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in today as the new President of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a Central Government for the first time since 1991.
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The Security Council asked the U.N. chief on Wednesday to plan for the possible deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia to replace African Union troops.
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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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Around 100 Burundian soldiers arrived in Somalia on Sunday as part of an African Union peacekeeping force trying to stabilise the war-torn country, an AU official said.
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Somalia's prime minister appealed on Wednesday for $32.6 million to fund a national reconciliation meeting in Mogadishu and said the next two weeks would prove if it could secure the violent capital in time.
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A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in Thursday as the new president of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a central government for the first time since 1991.
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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 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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Sudan plans to double the number of police in Darfur to 20,000, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday in the face of fresh reports that marauding Arab militiamen were still preying on stricken refugees.
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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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Russian government has welcomed the election of the new Somali president, Col Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr Aleksandr Yakovenko, said that his government hopes the remaining