Kismayo is a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia. It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.
Ali Mohammed Gedi,popularly known as Ali Gedi,is a Somali politician who was the Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia from 2004 to 2007. He was relatively unknown in political circles upon his appointment as prime minister in November 2004. He is affiliated with the Abgaal subclan of Mogadishu's Hawiye clan,one of Somalia's four most powerful clan 'families'. He narrowly survived a suicide attack at his home that left at least seven people dead on June 3,2007. Gedi was widely viewed as corrupt,and was replaced by Nur Hassan Hussein as PM during late 2007.
Barre Adan Shire,also known as Barre Hiiraale,Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire,or Abdikadir Adan Shire,Somali politician,former president of Jubaland state of Somalia,he is former Minister of Defense of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG). He was previously the TFG Minister for National Reconstruction and Resettlement. Hiiraale was also the chairman of the now defunct Juba Valley Alliance,which controlled Southern and Southwestern Somalia,including the nation's third-largest city,the strategic port town of Kismayo. During his time in office,Hiiraale presided over the country's largest autonomous area,as well as commanding an extensive militia.
The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was internationally recognized as a provisional government of the Somalia from 14 October 2004 until 20 August 2012,when its tenure officially ended and the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) was inaugurated.
The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia,also known as the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia or the Ethiopian intervention in the Somali Civil War,was an armed conflict that lasted from late 2006 to early 2009. It began when military forces from Ethiopia,supported by the United States,invaded Somalia to depose the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and install the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The conflict continued after the invasion when an anti-Ethiopian insurgency emerged and rapidly escalated. During 2007 and 2008,the insurgency recaptured the majority of territory lost by the ICU.
The 2006 Islamic Courts Union offensive is the period in the Somali Civil War that began in May 2006 with the Islamic Courts Union's (ICU) conquest of Mogadishu from the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) and continued with further ICU expansion in the country. Following the outbreak of the war on December 21,2006;by December 24,direct Ethiopian intervention in the conflict in support of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was no longer denied by the Ethiopian government. The Eritrean government denied any involvement despite Ethiopian claims to the contrary.
The Battle of Baidoa began on 20 December 2006 when the Somali transitional federal government forces (TFG) allied with Ethiopian forces stationed there attacked advancing Islamic Courts Union (ICU) forces along with 500 alleged Eritrean troops and mujahideen arrayed against them.
The Battle of Beledweyne occurred on December 24 to December 25,2006,when Ethiopian troops seized that Somalia town from Islamic Courts Union fighters,according to some news agencies. Beledweyne is 100 km north of Baidoa,the seat of Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.
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.
The Juba Valley Alliance is a political faction of the Somali Civil War. It was the primary opponent of the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM) and the Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) vying for the control of Kismayo and the Juba River valley,the area known as Jubaland.
The transitional federal government (TFG) was the government of Somalia between 2004 and 2012. Established 2004 in Djibouti through various international conferences,it was an attempt to restore national institutions to the country after the 1991 collapse of the Siad Barre government and the ensuing Somali Civil War.
The Battle of Jilib took place on the last day of 2006 during the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. It was fought when Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) troops and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) militia launched an offensive on the town of Jilib,held by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).
The fall of Kismayo occurred on January 1,2007,when the troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian forces entered the Somali city of Kismayo unopposed. It came after the Islamic Courts Union's forces faltered and fled in the Battle of Jilib,abandoning their final stronghold.
After two decades of violence and civil war and after the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia captured Mogadishu and Kismayo,the TFG attempted to disarm the militias of the country in late 2006. According to the UN/World Bank's Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) coordination secretariat,"the total estimated number of militias [militia members] to be demobilized is 53,000." In 2005,they estimated that "there are 11–15,000 militia people controlling Mogadishu ."
Sheikh Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki was a Somali Islamist who was a senior leader within al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).
The timeline of events in the War in Somalia during 2006 is set out below.
The timeline of events in the War in Somalia during 2007 is set out below.
General Ismail Qasim Naji in Borama,Somalia was the chief of staff of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and currently the Somali ambassador in Oman. He has served as a senior officer of the Somali army since the administration of Siad Barre,who was removed from power in 1991. Before the formation of the TFG,he also commanded the army of the predecessor Transitional National Government (TNG) of Somalia between 2002 and 2004.
Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islaam better known as Ahmed Madobe, is a Somali politician and a former militant who is the current president of the Jubaland state of Somalia and the chairman of the Raskamboni Movement.
Jubaland,or the Juba Valley,is a Federal Member State in southern Somalia. Jubba River,stretching from Dolow to the Indian Ocean,while its western side flanks the North Eastern Province in Kenya,which was carved out of Jubaland during the colonial period.
