What the records say
- When
- 21 Mar 2007 – 26 Apr 2007
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 2.04° N, 45.34° E
- Description
- battle of the Somali civil war
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Mogadishu (March–April 2007)
Major urban battle between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents
The Battle of Mogadishu was a major military engagement between the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and allied Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces on one side, and a coalition of Somali Islamist insurgents and clan militias fighting under Muqawama (Resistance) umbrella on the other.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Somali committee estimates the death toll of recent fighting between Ethiopian and Somali Government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu at more than 1,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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