Sources: IOL
The Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service detains dozens of suspected Somalian Islamic State militants, whom it alleges were trained and deployed to conduct operations throughout the country, especially in the Cal Miskaad mountains of the Bari region in Puntland. 2025-07-16
The United Nations Security Council approves the Resolution 2767 deployment of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), effective January 1, replacing the current African Union Transition Mission in Somalia. However, Somalia rejects Ethiopia's participation in AUSSOM amid tensions over a memorandum of understanding that Ethiopia signed with Somaliland in January. Somalia considers the memorandum a violation of its sovereignty and has instead asked Egypt to contribute troops to the mission. 2024-12-27
Ethiopian military forces close the country's border with Somalia following ongoing heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes. 2024-12-25
Violent clashes occur between the Ethiopia-backed Jubaland forces and the Somali Armed Forces in Dolow, Gedo Region, Somalia, with Jubaland forces later taking control of the town. 2024-12-23
Forty-nine migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, are killed and 140 are missing after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen. 2024-06-10
Clashes take place in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab ambush Ethiopian troops. 2012-03-10
Ethiopian forces capture the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabaab Islamist militants. 2011-12-31
The United Nations reports the worst drought in six decades is affecting more than 10 million people and forced people in Somalia to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia as they starve to death. 2011-06-28
Thousands of asylum seekers from Ethiopia and Somalia are stranded in camps in northern Mozambique after measures adopted by the government to restrict their movements. 2011-05-12
Ethiopia and Kenya may attack the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia, following its threat to target Kenya. 2011-02-28