Events

January 7 – Fighting breaks out between Somali protesters and Ethiopian troops in the town of Beledweyne after an official is arrested for refusing to hand over a member of the ousted Islamic Courts Union. Three people are reportedly injured.^[1]
January 8 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somalia's interim President, arrives in the capital, Mogadishu, his first visit since Mujahideen forces of the Islamic Courts Union fled advancing Ethiopian troops and interim government soldiers.^[2]
January 23 – Ethiopia begins withdrawing troops from Mogadishu.^[3]
January 27 – Ethiopia is going to withdraw one third of its troops stationed in Somalia by Sunday January 28, 2007, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says.^[4]

March 30 – An Ethiopian helicopter is downed in Mogadishu as Ethiopian and Somali government troops battle insurgents.^[5]

April 22 – More than 60 people are killed in the fourth day of heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist militia in Mogadishu.^[6]
April 24 - Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front raid a Chinese-run oil field in near the country's border with Somalia, killing 74.^[7]

July 20 – The government of Ethiopia pardons and frees opposition leaders who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in riots following 2005 elections. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi denies that the release was forced by the United States.^[8]

September 1 – International aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has accused Ethiopia of denying it access to the country's eastern Ogaden region.^[9]
September 11 – The Ethiopian third millennium was celebrated nationwide and concert hall was organized in Millennium Hall in Addis Ababa.
September 13 – Ethiopia will deploy 5,000 troops as part of a joint United Nations - African Union mission in the Darfur region of Sudan.^[10]

October 9 – The Ethiopian Parliament re-elects Girma Wolde-Giorgis for a second six-year term.
October 21 – The Ogaden National Liberation Front says it has carried out an attack on government troops, killing 140 troops.^[11]

December 28 – Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from a key town in central Somalia. Islamist insurgents say they now control Guriel.^[12]

References

^ "Protests hit Somali border town". 7 January 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Somali leader arrives in capital". 8 January 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Ethiopia starts Somalia pull-out". 23 January 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "More Ethiopians to quit Somalia". 27 January 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Helicopter shot down in Somalia". 30 March 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Scores killed in Somalia clashes". 22 April 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Scores die in Ethiopia oil attack". 24 April 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Ethiopia releases protest leaders". 20 July 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Ethiopia 'blocking MSF in Ogaden'". 1 September 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Ethiopia to deploy 5000 troops in Darfur". 14 September 2007. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "'Skirmishes' in Ethiopia's Ogaden". 23 October 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Ethiopia leaves key Somali town". 28 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2015.

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