News on African Union

Somalia Fighting

2010-10-03T08:45:12Z

A young man holds his injured father on the back of a pick-up truck, after he was wounded by mortar shrapnel during clashes between Somali insurgents and African Union troops Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. A medical official said scores of people were killed and wounded in the clashes. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Somalia Light for Mogadishu

2010-09-21T14:54:23Z

In this Saturday Sept.18, 2010 photo a government soldier stands guard in Hoshi base, Mogadishu which they share with African Union peacekeepers. Many soldiers complain they are not paid wages for months at a time and rely on the peacekeepers for ammunition and food. Most Somalis, battered by two decades of war and seeing no improvement in the...

Ethiopia Elections

2010-05-21T08:32:29Z

In this Saturday Feb. 2, 2008 photo, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, middle, listen to a speech at the United Nations Conference Hall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the closing session of the AU conference at Assembly of U.N., African Union., and ECOWAS, as they meet with the ruling junta at an army base in Niamey...

SOMALIA

2010-03-27T20:57:23Z

Medical personnel at Medina hospital move the body of a person killed in clashes between Africa Union soldiers and Islamic insurgents, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 in the capital, Mogadishu. Islamic insurgents fired several mortars from Mogadishu's main Bakara market in the direction of African Union peacke...