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| Heavy fighting resumes in Las Anod amid calls for calm |
| 2023-03-19 |
| [ShabelleMedia] In the early morning of Saturday, a fierce battle broke out again outside the town of Lasanod, the capital of Sool region, after a pause in the fighting. The war started in different directions, including Maraga and other parts in the east and west of Lasanod city, which is under the control of clan militia. According to the reports, the fighting erupted at 4:30am after the city was attacked by forces from Somaliland, a region that claims a unilateral independence for over 30 years. For more than two weeks there was no fighting, and the attempt for ceasefire failed. Muse Bihi Abid, the leader of Somalia asked his army to leave their bases and city peacefully, but he refused a make a complete pull out from entire SSC regions. Local hospital said more than 200 people have been killed and hundreds more maimed in weeks of intense fighting and bombardments. The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council last month called for a de-escalation in Las Anod and condemned the civilian killing in the mortar shelling and targeting the hospitals. Those calls have gone unheeded as both sides continued exchanging heavy fire. Somaliland controlled the town since 2007 after capturing it from Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , but the local clans want a self-governance under Somalia’s federal system. In the early morning of Saturday, a fierce battle broke out again outside the town of Lasanod, the capital of Sool region, after a pause in the fighting. The war started in different directions, including Maraga and other parts in the east and west of Lasanod city, which is under the control of clan militia. According to the reports, the fighting erupted at 4:30am after the city was attacked by forces from Somaliland, a region that claims a unilateral independence for over 30 years. For more than two weeks there was no fighting, and the attempt for ceasefire failed. Muse Bihi Abid, the leader of Somalia asked his army to leave their bases and city peacefully, but he refused a make a complete pull out from entire SSC regions. Local hospital said more than 200 people have been killed and hundreds more maimed in weeks of intense fighting and bombardments. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Security Council last month called for a de-escalation in Las Anod and condemned the civilian killing in the mortar shelling and targeting the hospitals. Those calls have gone unheeded as both sides continued exchanging heavy fire. Somaliland controlled the town since 2007 after capturing it from Puntland, but the local clans want a self-governance under Somalia’s federal system. |
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