BAIDOA, Somalia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusef Ahmed, blamed for the country's deepening political crisis, resigned Monday, the Parliament speaker said.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The president of Somalia's struggling transitional government is widely expected to resign this weekend, observers say.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The United Nations is calling a Somali peace deal a good step toward stabilizing the fragile security situation in the country.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Somalia Prime Minister Nur Hassan Nur Ade says he won't step down after 11 of his cabinet ministers resigned to protest what they call his "dictatorship."

MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 13 (UPI) -- The Transitional Federal Government in Somalia says it has agreed to hold talks with opposition leaders after years of violence have ravaged the country.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 19 (UPI) -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed vowed that planned, internationally sponsored peace talks will go forward despite clashes in Mogadishu.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 23 (UPI) -- After taking control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the Islamic militia has agreed to work with the transitional government under a cease-fire agreement.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 12 (UPI) -- Somalia's exiled Parliament voted Thursday to return from Kenya and set up not in the lawless capital of Mogadishu, but two other relatively stable cities.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Somalia's newly elected President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has asked the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to help secure the country and disarm militias.