About 400 Somaliland’s separatist militia are said to have been surrounded by 1500 local fighters in the town of Widhwidh, 95km South East of Buhotle, a town where Ethiopian Troops met fierce resistance. 20 casualties on both sides was reported to the media, and as a result the stalemate caused the militia to remain where the battle took place a day earlier.The Ethiopian withdrawal from Buhotle hampered Somaliland’s move to occupy more SSC towns, and Riyale administration in Hargeisa has so far failed to bring solution to the conflict. As of today, according to a local spokesperson for the SSC Chief, Gerad Jama, “the head of the stranded Somaliland militia contacted him and requested safe passage. However, the Gerad told him, unless their forces withdraw from Lasanod, he will be powerless to do anything.”
As secessionists’ in Northwest Somalia continue to lure the world that fair and free elections will take place this year, the Riyale regime in Hargeisa is busy creating instability and unnecessary wars thus shedding light to the illegitimacy of such an election. Moreover, the secessionist’s hopes have been further dashed as the World Community in Istanbul Conference declared the unquestionable support for united Somalia.
Laasqoray News Desk
Puntland Diaspora Forum Press Release: On Ethiopia’s violent incursion, Buuhoodle slaughter, and Somaliland’s aggression on Widh-Widh community
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