Somali govt welcomes U.S. draft on peacekeepers
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers in the violent state, as residents said on Saturday that rival Islamists had seized another town.
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The Somali peace process is on theright track and a new government is expected to go back to Somaliaearly next year with an almost ready political program and main tasks clearly laid out, a senior Somali official said.
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The United States on Monday  circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for a large  peacekeeping force in southern Sudan but dodged the question of  what kind of court should try war criminals in Darfur.
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The United States on Monday  circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would send as many as  10,000 peacekeepers to southern Sudan but dodges the question  of where to try perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur.
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Somalia's Islamic militia invited U.S. government leaders on Thursday to visit the capital, Mogadishu, the city where 18 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to the East African nation were killed in 1993.
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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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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 20 -- A U.S. diplomat on Thursday dismissed widespread criticism of Somalia's recently concluded national reconciliation conference, saying it represented a "milestone" in the country's attempt to form its first viable government since 1991.
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The United States circulated a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Friday that would authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's weak government and lift an arms embargo on the country to allow the troops to be armed.
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Ugandan MPs approve the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an African Union force.
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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.
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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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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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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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The Somali government took a fresh  step toward establishing itself on home soil on Sunday when a  second team of officials including a senior minister flew from  Kenya to Mogadishu to assess security in the failed state.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Thursday that U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation that many fear is on the verge of all-out war.