AU peacekeepers arrive in Somalia
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The first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.
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The African Union will add 4,000   troops to its extended Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing   the number of police and soldiers in western Sudan to 11,000, a   spokesman for the AU said on Monday.
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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 new government urges the UN Security Council to send some peacekeepers to help it end years of anarchy.
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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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The U.N. Security Council  authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia  for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital  and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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Insurgents attacked the airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday and fought a heavy battle with government and Ethiopian troops as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's lawless capital.
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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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The first all-female unit of United Nations peacekeepers, from India, arrives in Liberia.
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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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Somalia&#39;s prime minister urged  the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to  his country, but council members told him they wanted to see  political progress toward peace first.
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The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of an African Union peacekeeping force to Somalia, which could be followed in six months by a UN force.
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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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Backed by the African Union, Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorized an African force to protect Somalia's government against an increasingly powerful Islamic militia, hoping to restore peace and avert a broader conflict in the region.
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An African Union mission arrives in the Somali capital to assess security despite a protest against foreign troops.
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African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit on Wednesday arrived in Mogadishu to review the African body's peacekeeping operation and meet Somali officials.