Fall of Mogadishu
2006 takeover of Mogadishu by TFG and Ethiopian troops during the War in Somalia (2006–09) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The fall of Mogadishu occurred on 28 December 2006, when the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) advanced into the capital to install the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which had controlled the capital since June 2006, withdrew from the city after a week of fighting ENDF/TFG forces in southern and central Somalia.[3][4]
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Part of the War in Somalia (2006–2009) | |||||||
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Transitional Federal Government Ethiopia[1][2] | Islamic Courts Union |
The city's fall marked the beginning of the Ethiopian military occupation in Mogadishu and the start of a rising Islamist insurgency. The security situation in the capital began to rapidly deteriorate soon after and warlords who had been removed by the ICU began to reassert themselves.[5][6]