Lasanod: City at the Margins [ by: Ahmed A. Musa] examines the economic and political consequences of this ambiguous borderland status, which has led to new forms of revenue collection and political organization. It describes how traders negotiate multiple tax regimes in the borderlands between Somaliland and Puntland and outlines the consequences for doing business […]

Lasando, Somalia: SSC-Khaatumo led by the Traditional leaders and the 33 locally elected consultative council of Lasanod, call for United Nations entities such as UNOCHA to ensure that UN Aid gets to the intended targets, in this case the internally displaced people of Sool Sanaag and Cayn. Entrusting aid shipments to be adminstered by the […]

Lasanod, Somalia: Somaliland Forces continued their back to back assault on Friday and Saturday; as part of their 57th attempt to battle their way into the strategic city of Lasanod. It has been almost 3 months since the people of lasanod agreed to join the Federal Government of Somalia_ declaring  their pro Union position. However, […]

PRESS STATEMENT: VEDANT PATEL, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON MARCH 30, 2023. The United States is increasingly concerned by the continuing violence in Lascanood and joins other international partners and neighbors in calling for de-escalation, adherence to the agreed ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian access, and resumption of constructive dialogue towards peaceful resolution. Continued violence will increase the potential […]

Lasanod, Somalia: Somaliland administration keeps projecting to the world that there are fighting “alshabab forces in Lasanod when in fact they have waged an illegal war against the local SSC -khaatumo people of lasanod. The Hargaisa administration keeps doling out false misleading statements to the international community. local residents of Lasanod continue to receive daily […]

Attacks by Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia whose sovereignty claim has no international recognition, have caused over 1,500 injuries since February 6 in Las Anod, which is at the heart of the movement to reunify the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) with Somalia. March 24, 2023 by Pavan Kulkarni. Somaliland is a self-proclaimed republic, with no […]

Author, Abdighani Hirad provides indepth analysis of the Conflict in Lasanod.  I. Summary: The Lasanod conflict entered its second month. This report covers the trajectory of the conflict when the people of Lasanod rose against a secessionist entity denying their political identity based on a territorially and politically united Somalia. First, the report contextualizes the […]

Lasanod, Somalia: Somaliland Strikes again at 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning, Shelling Lasanod City with heavy mortars, targetting Kaah Hotel and Safari Restaurants. both building suffered heavy causulties when the missiles hit them. locals staying at Kaah Hotel reported large explosions, killing and injuring civilians. Meanwhile at the Maraaga Intersection on the Eastern side […]

Lasanod, Somalia, (African Confidential). Oblivious to the concerns of western countries and interested neighbours President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland has now listened to envoys of Ethiopia and called off the all-out assault on the town of Las Anod which had earlier declared its desire to become a Federal Member State within the federation of […]