Somalia optimistic after President&#39;s inauguration
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afrol News, 14 October - Somalia&#39;s first President in 13 years, Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf, has taken his oath in a Nairobi ceremony and Somalia yesterday was re-granted its voting rights at the UN.
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The first freely elected president in Afghanistan&#39;s 5,000-year history took the oath of office here today. &quot;Nothing makes me more hopeful to the future
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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.
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With the election of its first president with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what it will bring is the question
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the inauguration of the transitional federal parliament for Somalia - an event which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, where negotiators have been hammering out a peace deal for nearly two years.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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The first post-independence African leader to peacefully hand over power, Somalia's first President Adan Abdulle Osman, has died aged 99, the interim Somali government said on Saturday.
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Despite a recent surge in violence, Somalia has its best opportunity in years to emerge from anarchy and the world must help the interim government assert its authority, a top U.N. envoy said Thursday.
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Somalia's president-elect, tasked with setting up the first national government in 13 years, is due to take the oath of office in Kenya.
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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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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, should begin this week.
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The new U.N. envoy to Somalia made his first visit to the conflict-wracked capital on Saturday to discuss the humanitarian needs of the country with government officials.
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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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Nairobi: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed won Somalia&#39;s presidential vote, an election official announced at a ballot designed to install the anarchic Horn of Africa&#39;s country&#39;s first recognised central government since 1991.
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Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain.
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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.