Uganda parliament votes to send troops to Somalia
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Uganda's parliament voted on Tuesday to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia to help stem an unrelenting wave of hit and run attacks by insurgents on the interim government in Mogadishu.
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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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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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MPs and religious leaders are to meet Lord&#39;s Resistance Army commanders for talks in Kitgum in northern Uganda. A Christmas ceasefire is in force in parts of the north.
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Somali officials say 30 Ugandan African Union peacekeepers have arrived in the southern town of Baidoa.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - The African Union's Peace and Security Council voted Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali  capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union  peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government  and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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Hundreds of Somalis have taken to the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, to celebrate the inauguration of the country&#39;s parliament.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will be airlifted as soon as possible into Somalia amid rising violence that threatens the government's grip on power, an African Union official said yesterday.
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Somalia&#39;s new prime minister is Ali Mohamed Ghedi, a Member of Parliament from the capital, Mogadishu. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced the appointment at a news conference in Nairobi.
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The African Union agrees in principle to provide troops to allow the Somali government to be installed in Mogadishu.
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The first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.
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The arrival of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Tuesday was marked by some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, highlighting the huge task facing the African Union force in Somalia.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued as authorities searched nearby houses for suspects.
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Military officials from Burundi were in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday to prepare the long-awaited deployment of peacekeepers.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers in the violent state, as residents said on Saturday that rival Islamists had seized another town.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 6 -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing an East African peacekeeping force to prevent an alliance of Islamic militias from overthrowing Somalia's fragile interim government.