Armed fighters attacked two African Union peacekeeping bases in Somalia’s capital, and a witness said he saw the bodies of three civilians killed.

An official says insurgents have attacked two African Union peacekeepers’ bases in the Somali capital, and a witness says at least three people were killed.

An artillery shell killed two schoolchildren in the Somali capital on Wednesday during the second day of fighting between AU peacekeepers and Islamist insurgents, witnesses and officials said. Elsewhere, Islamists seized a key southern town from pro-gover

An attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital Sunday killed 11 people, the AU said, but it denied insurgent claims of a suicide attack.

Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was elected Monday as leader of the African Union, a position long sought by the eccentric dictator pushing his oil-rich nation into the international mainstream after years of isolation.

Somali officials and an eyewitness say African Union peacekeepers opened fire on civilian vehicles and fatally shot 18 people after an AU vehicle hit a land mine.

A senior Egyptian diplomat says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been elected to lead the African Union.

A joint peacekeeping mission for the Darfur region of Sudan will expand to its full strength of 26,000 soldiers and police by June, a top African Union official said Monday.

The African Union will keep its overstretched peacekeeping force in Somalia for two more months, an official said, but there was little hope of deploying extra soldiers in time to fill a security vacuum when Ethiopian troops pull out at the end of this ye

Regional leaders and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are holding a crisis meeting aimed at ending the latest fighting in eastern Congo.