UN official visits Somali capital
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The international community is willing to help Somalia as long as there is "progress on the ground," the United Nations' political chief said during a four-hour trip to the Somali capital.
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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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A senior State Department official toured a Darfur refugee camp Monday, assessing conditions for thousands of displaced people hours before a U.N. deadline ran out for the Sudanese government to end violence in the troubled western region.
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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Somalia has inaugurated a transitional parliament in the latest step toward creating a new central government for the nation. Somali lawmakers and international mediators took part in the ceremony Sunday at UN offices in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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A UN envoy to Sudan will visit Darfur tomorrow to check on the government&#39;s claim that some 70,000 people displaced by conflict there have voluntarily returned to their homes, a spokesman said.
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NAIROBI, 16 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - The United Nations Security Council meeting that is due to take place on Thursday and Friday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, will focus on the situation in Sudan and on the peace process in Somalia,a UN official said.
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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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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday praised the inauguration of Col. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as transitional president of Somalia.
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Ethiopia's foreign minister arrived in Somalia Saturday to mediate disagreements among the leaders of the nation's U.N.-backed transitional government, which is under pressure from an Islamic militia that the United States accuses of harboring terrorists.
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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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The scale of suffering in Somalia is a "moral outrage", a top United Nations official says.
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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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At least 10,000 people flee fresh violence since the start of peace talks in Somalia's capital, the UN says.
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi visits Somalia for the first since his troops helped oust Islamists.
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Ethiopia on Thursday welcomed the recent deployment of Burundian peacekeepers to Somalia and asked for more help from the African Union in its struggle with Islamist insurgents there.
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The first African Union peacekeepers arrive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from Uganda, officials confirm.