Kenya seeks more help for chaotic Somalia
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Kenya made an impassioned plea   to world governments on Tuesday to quickly extend a helping   hand to chaotic Somalia or risk leaving the entire globe a more   dangerous place.
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Islamic militiamen have consolidated their power in the Somali capital, but their leaders now have to navigate treacherous clan politics, the source of the country&#039;s 15 years of anarchy.
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Islamists and opposition leaders are set to join forces to try to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.
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A U.S.-organized group of nations concerned about the rise of Islamic factions in Somalia lent its support Thursday to the country&#039;s weak interim government and demanded free access so aid groups can help the impoverished Somali people.
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Some 2,000 Somalis cross into Kenya in just two days, as the UN says it is struggling to cope.
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Kenya's opposition leader called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.
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Kenya on Wednesday pledged tougher action to rein in post-election violence that threatens to spiral out of control, in the east African nation's darkest moment since independence in 1963.
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Battered Somalia is trying to reconcile its warring factions. But mortar attacks, boycotts and an expiring peacekeepersâ mandate leave little room for optimism.
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A European Union delegation visiting Somalia's capital urged the country's increasingly powerful Islamic militia to resume peace talks with the government amid fears of war, an Islamic official said Wednesday.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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Somalia's interim prime minister called on the United Nations to partially lift an arms embargo on his country to allow for the deployment of African peacekeepers, which he said are necessary to stop the advance of Islamic radicals.
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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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Somalia's prime minister names a new cabinet, facing pressure to return home from their exiled base in Kenya.
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A new wave of violence is sweeping through Somalia. Find out why peace remains an elusive dream for the shattered country.
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Up to 500,000 people in Kenya will need aid in the weeks ahead if the political crisis intensifies, the UN says.
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Somalia'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 United States must move urgently to help deploy more international peacekeeping troops to Somalia, where a U.N.-supported government is under attack from radical Islamic insurgents, the government's prime minister said  yesterday.