Ethiopian troops moving on Somali supply route: witnesses
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were  spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to  the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods  stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist battlewagons moved   closer to the strategic Somali port of Kismayo, local officials   said on Friday, but Islamists denied any attempt to seize the   city and expand their territorial gains in the south.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Ethiopia on Wednesday brushed off an Islamist ultimatum to leave Somalia in a week, as troops dug in on a slim frontline separating the powerful religious movement and the Ethiopian-backed government.
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At least eight civilians are killed after insurgents ambush Ethiopian troops in the Somali capital.
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Around 100 Burundian soldiers arrived in Somalia on Sunday as part of an African Union peacekeeping force trying to stabilise the war-torn country, an AU official said.
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About 100 Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest sign that Ethiopia might try to bolster this country&#039;s weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on Ethiopian troops unless they leave the Horn of Africa nation within seven days.
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Gunmen fired rockets at a Mogadishu police station and Ethiopian troops in the latest in a string of attacks on government positions in the lawless Horn of African country, residents said on Monday.
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An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is ambushed by Islamist fighters who claim some 20 were killed, witnesses say.
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within nine miles of the border with Ethiopia, heightening fears that fighting would break out between the two sides.
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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.
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Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents.
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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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Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.
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Militiamen loyal to the fundamentalist Islamic group that appears determined to rule Somalia are advancing on one of the last remaining commercial ports outside of their control, an official said Wednesday.