First members of AU peacekeeping force arrive in Somalia
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Around 30 Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia, the first members of an African Union peacekeeping force that is due to be deployed in the country.
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The first Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital early Tuesday to provide protection for the still struggling transitional government and to allow for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who intervened in the country.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan -- A contingent of 50 Nigerian soldiers arrived in Darfur yesterday aboard a US military plane, the first of 3,000 additional African Union troops deployed to monitor an unsteady cease-fire in Sudan's western region.
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Elite Australian troops arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday as the body of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casualty of Canberra&#39;s tough South Pacific security policy, arrived home.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian troops withdrew from the southern city of Kismayu, leaving it in the hands of Somalia's interim government until African Union (AU) peacekeepers arrive, officials said on Friday.
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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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The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.
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Somali officials say 30 Ugandan African Union peacekeepers have arrived in the southern town of Baidoa.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Oct 30  -- Sixty-five Rwandan troops arrived in the the Darfur town of El Fasher as part of a growing African Union (AU) military mission charged with monitoring a shaky ceasefire in the troubled region of western Sudan, an AFP
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of up to 20,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - A contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers arrived in Darfur on Thursday aboard a U.S. military  plane, the first of 3,000 extra African Union troops deployed  to monitor a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's western region.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force was poised to take over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of violence in the western Sudanese region.
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Thirty Ugandan African Union peacekeepers arrive in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, say local officials.
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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.
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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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The airport in Somalia's capital is attacked with mortars as the first African Union peacekeepers arrive.