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| Africa Horn |
| Clashes continue in LasAnod amid growing calls for ceasefire |
| 2023-02-26 |
| [ShabelleMedia] A fierce fighting is going on in the city of Lasanod, the capital of Sool region, between the Somaliland army and the local people. Saturday’s fighting erupted at a military base where the commander of the Somaliland army in the region General Mahad Anbashe with reports he escaped and now on the run. The local forces known as SCC also seized a cache of weapons such as communication, AK-47s and armored vehicles of the Somaliland stationed in Gulwadiyasha outpost. Somaliland earlier said that its army was attacked, and it defended itself against groups that it called "terrorists". The camp was the main target that the local fighters wanted to occupy for weeks of festivities. Its capture deals a major blow to Somaliland troops. At least 112 people have been killed and more than 500 maimed in fierce fighting in the town of Lasanod as US, UN and EU call for immediate secession of the hostilities. UNHCR said more than 60,000 Somali people have fled to Æthiopia after an escalation in fighting in the town, which lies in the disputed border between Somaliland and 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... . |
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