The U.N. Security Council authorized on Tuesday an African Union force in Somalia for another six months, a day after Somalia's government signed a peace agreement with some opposition figures.
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The U.N. Security Council authorized on Tuesday an African Union force in Somalia for another six months, a day after Somalia's government signed a peace agreement with some opposition figures.
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The killing and kidnapping of aid workers in Somalia threatens to wreck all attempts to resolve a humanitarian disaster that could soon rival its famine in the early 1990s, the United Nations...
Jailed leaders of Libya's main Islamist militant group are talking to the government about abandoning their armed struggle, a former senior member of the organisation said in remarks published on...
Somali civil groups urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to impose sanctions on political leaders opposed to peace talks and to call for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces backing the interim...
Mauritania's new prime minister named a cabinet late on Sunday, handing powerful posts to figures who served the authoritarian administration ousted in a 2005 coup and bringing in Islamist...
The death-toll from battles between Islamist-led insurgents and allied Ethiopian-Somali troops rose to 85 on Monday, leaving corpses on the streets and deepening the Horn of Africa nation's...
Exiled Somali leaders are ready to start talks with the interim government but want the United Nations to mediate a ceasefire and head the dialogue, an opposition figure said on Wednesday.
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