Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia - African Union peacekeepers said Friday they have worked frantically to establish new bases across Somalia's chaotic capital, in what officials said is a new strategic turn after Somali soldiers ditched more than a dozen key positions during a month of bloody clashes.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Residents in Somalia's capital have feared a threatened increase in fighting during Ramadan, but the Muslim religious month has brought another hardship as well: high food prices.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Hundreds of women and children marched through Somalia's capital Monday to protest the destruction of tombs of Somali clerics, some a century old, by al-Qaida-linked militants wielding sledgehammers and pickaxes.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Last year Somalia's Radio Warsan was a pro-government station that vilified al-Qaida-linked insurgents.