Ugandan peacekeepers wait for back-up in Mogadishu
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Wearing reflective life jackets and clutching their rifles in the ocean spray, peacekeepers from landlocked Uganda patrol the Mogadishu coastline in speedboats, wary of insurgents onshore and pirates out at sea.
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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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Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels vowed on Tuesday to resume an offensive against the government unless Kampala agrees to move faltering peace talks to a new venue outside south Sudan.
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A delegation from Somalia's exiled government goes to the ruined and divided capital, Mogadishu, to pave the way for its return.
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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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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 United Nations urgently needs international support to boost its presence in Somalia and restore basic services, or the country could collapse into chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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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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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 first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.
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The United Nations is to deploy peacekeepers to try to prevent further clashes in eastern DR Congo.
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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A Somali Islamist group threatened on Tuesday to fight any peacekeeping troops sent to their country as African leaders struggled to put together an international force for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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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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Sudan's government and Darfur rebels said  on Thursday they were waiting for African Union mediators to  decide if peace talks would continue despite a stalemate on  security in the western Sudanese region.