Chronology of Events

  • 12 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Islamists warn that Ethiopian troops said to be protecting the TFG in Baidoa and elsewhere must leave Somalia within seven days or face war.
  • 19 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Hostilities following expiration of the deadline.
  • 24 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says he is waging war against the Islamists to protect his country's sovereignty. It is Ethiopia's first public admission of military involvement in Somalia.
  • 25 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Ethiopian jets strike the Islamist-controlled Somali airports of Baledogle, Somalia's biggest military airfield, and Mogadishu.
  • 28 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Forces of the ICU distribute weapons and flee Mogadishu ahead of a joint Ethiopian and Somali government force, which capture the capital.
  • 31 December 2006
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Somali Prime Minister Gedi enters Mogadishu.
  • 01 January 2007
    18 Jan 2010 -
    UIC abandon defences at Kismayu in the face of heavy artillery fire.
  • 05 January 2007
    18 Jan 2010 - Ethiopia's Prime Minister says his country will pull its troops out of Somalia within two weeks.
    Diplomats join meeting of International Consultative Group on Somalia in Nairobi to discuss sending regional peacekeepers and more aid to Somalia.
  • 08 January 2007
    18 Jan 2010 -
    President Abdullahi Yusuf arrives in Mogadishu for the first time.
  • 08 January 2007
    18 Jan 2010 -
    Washington-based media report that US gunships struck at al-Qaida members said to be hiding with remnants of the UIC in southern Somalia near the Kenyan border.

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