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See also:	Other events of 2009 Timeline of Ethiopian history

The following lists events that happened during 2009 in Ethiopia.

Incumbents

• President: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
• Prime Minister: Meles Zenawi

Events

January

• January 2 – Ethiopia begins withdrawing troops from Somalia after two years of intervention in the civil war.^[1]