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AU forces on high alert after Somali minister killed
The African Union peacekeepers say their forces are on high alert a day after a suspected suicide bomber killed the country’s interior minister.
Somalis drag bodies through streets
The body of a fighter who appeared to be a member of the AU’s peacekeeping mission was pulled through Somali streets by a rope on Thursday.
Ugandan rebel attack on Sudanese village condemned
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas attacked a remote Sudanese village, killing 11 people and abducting 27 others, but the attack would not endanger peace talks under way,…
Uganda rebels walk out of peace talks
Ugandan rebels have walked out of peace talks because the government refused their demands for senior government posts, a rebel spokesperson said on Friday. The two sides have…
Burundi peacekeepers deploy in Mogadishu
A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed…