Siege of Baidoa

Siege of Baidoa
Part of the War in Somalia
DateJuly 8, 2008–January 26, 2009
Location
Bay region, Somalia
3°04′28″N 43°50′07″E / 3.074444°N 43.835278°E / 3.074444; 43.835278
Result Al-Shabaab victory; fall of Baidoa
Belligerents
Al-Shabaab  Somalia (Transitional Federal Government)
 Ethiopia

The siege of Baidoa was a military confrontation lasting from July 2008 to January 2009 during the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, during which al-Shabaab laid siege to the headquarters of the Ethiopian backed Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

During January 2009, the first TFG collapsed and Al-Shabaab overran the seat of the government in Baidoa.[1]

  1. ^ Thompkins, Gwen (29 January 2009). "Somali Government In Exile; Islamists Take Over". National Public Radio. this week, the transitional government collapsed completely. A group of radical Islamist fighters overran the seat of government in the town of Baidoa