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 for extremist groups.

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 threats and heavy artillery that had destoryed hundreds of civilians.