Elders in disputed Las Anod want it administered by Mogadishu
Local leader Garad Jama Garad Ali (holding flag) is welcomed by inhabitants of Las Anod on January 23, 2023. Clan elders in the disputed Las Anod region of Somalia want their area to be managed directly by the Federal Government of Somalia in Mogadishu. PHOTO | COURTESY
Clan elders in the disputed Las Anod region of Somalia want their area to be managed directly by the Federal Government of Somalia in Mogadishu, rejecting claims by both the self-declared republic of Somaliland and the authority of Puntland state.
During a sitting in Las Anod town — the capital of Sool region, some 1000km northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu — the elders from the local Dhulbahante clan, widely known as Isimada, proclaimed that the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn region, or the SSC, belong to Somalia under the federal government. The SSC have been disputed by Somaliland, whose independence is still unrecognised, and Puntland federal state of Somalia.
