EDITORIAL: For weeks now, Las Anod, the capital of the Sool region, north of Somalia has become the talk of the town, for bad reasons.With at least 100 people killed in the conflict, this place is not ...

ollowing the closed consultations on the Syria chemical weapons track, Security Council members will discuss the situation in Somalia under“any other business”. The UK, the penholder on the ...

Las Anod is the capital of Sool, a region caught between two colliding state building projects: Somaliland to the west and Puntland to the east (Hoehne, 2015).

Las Anod is claimed by both Somaliland, a breakaway region in the north, and Puntland, a federal state in Somalia. Somaliland had avoided the problem of Al-Shabaab which has seen most of southern ...

Fighting in the area of Las Anod, in the breakaway Somaliland republic, has escalated, with medical sources now saying more than 100 people have been killed in three weeks of clashes.

The city of Las Anod, the administrative capital of the Sool region, is preparing to host a high-stakes political conference aimed at finalizing the structure and leadership of the SSC-Khaatumo ...

Las Anod/Hargeisa — At least 38 people were killed, and more than 130 others injured following two days of fighting in Las Anod town, in eastern Somaliland.

Biden’s disinterest in Las Anod will have consequences beyond the Horn of Africa. The State Department has increasingly ignored Somaliland, a former British protectorate out of deference to ...

Somalia authorities have over the past week been dealing with yet another mass displacement of people as conflict raged in Las Anod following an intensified confrontation between Somaliland forces ...