the united states of america and ethiopia was alarmed by this takeover, so ethiopia invaded southern somalia in 2007 and put a new government in power that was made up of the rebel groups that ethiopia had funded 15 years earlier. almost everyone disagreed with this decision, and that same year a rebellion against this new government broke out in mogadishu and spread across the whole country by 2008. at around the same time, somali pirates kidnapped westerners from big ships for ransom.