First AU peacekeepers arrive in Mogadishu
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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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African leaders consider requests to contribute to a peacekeeping force for Somalia at the AU summit.
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A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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At least seven mortar shells were fired at Mogadishu's airport Monday during a welcoming ceremony as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital, a journalist who witnessed the attack told CNN.
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Ugandan MPs approve the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an African Union force.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia in the first contingent of an African Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation.
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Italian troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers landed Sunday in Lebanon as the arrival of the first large contingent of international peacekeepers entered its second day after being delayed by rough seas.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 22 -- Members of a new Somali transitional parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing the country&#39;s first national government since 1991.
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An African Union team visits Somalia on Monday to test the waters for deploying a peacekeeping force.
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Members of a new transitional parliament for Somalia were sworn in yesterday - a key step toward establishing Somaliaâs first national government since 1991.
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ADDIS ABABA - One third of troop reinforcements taking part in an expanded African Union peacekeeping force have arrived in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur, the pan-African body said.
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Some 5,000 extra troops start to arrive in the DR Congo to reinforce a stretched UN peacekeeping force.
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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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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, apparently heeding an Islamist call to fight African Union peacekeepers arriving to help the interim government restore order.
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A commercial cargo vessel docks in the Somali capital's main port for the first time in nearly a decade.