Ethiopia deadline to quit Somalia
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack".
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
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Eritrea has warned of a fresh eruption of &quot;chaos and turmoil&quot; in Somalia if the UN Security Council approves the deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless African nation.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan gave African Union troops a one-week ultimatum yesterday to accept a deal blocking a proposed UN peacekeeping force in Darfur, or else leave the war-torn region, a step that would probably worsen the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
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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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The Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen sat down this week with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss rising tensions with Somalia's Islamic Courts, and the state of democracy inside the country.
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Organizers of a national reconciliation conference in Somalia due to start on Thursday have postponed it for one month in the second delay to long-awaited peace efforts in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on more than 30,000 Ethiopian troops it said were in the Horn of Africa nation unless they left within seven days.
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The African Union (AU) has issued a 24-hour deadline to the Sudanese Government and Darfur rebels to end fighting after a massive military build-up in the region over the past two weeks.
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Somali opposition figures on Friday named a senior Islamist as chairman of a "liberation" alliance vowing war on Ethiopian troops and demanding the exit of Ugandan peacekeepers from the Horn of Africa nation.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- An African summit ended today with a proposed peacekeeping force for Somalia still lacking firm commitments for thousands of troops, despite fears that the country could plunge back into anarchy.
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Somalia's president has flown to Ethiopia for a medical treatment a month after being hospitalized with a chest illness, officials said Friday, creating more uncertainty for his volatile country.
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is withdrawing its forces from the region to meet an African Union ceasefire deadline, an AU spokesman says. village of Labado on Saturday, Assane Ba said on Sunday.
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NAIROBI, June 28 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday that his government "made a wrong political calculation" when it intervened  in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a fight against a growing insurgency.
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The Security Council urged the African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government could lift its emergency security measures.
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The Somali peace process that began in Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia&#39;s new parliament, which is sitting in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, is on the verge of selecting a president, and
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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.