Limited or even nonexistent reliable and independent media outlets to report reality on the ground is an unfortunate event. By vice, peculiarities of people in Laasaanood town of Sool region are completely isolated from the rest of the world. Enjoying the luxury of impunity, security forces keep engaging against civilian protestors, who are regularly arrested and detained indiscriminately; this has become the order of day for many ordinary citizens in Laasaanood.

Sool governor of Somaliland imposes unwarranted censorships and security forces deployment in major streets of Laasaanood to suppress popular uprisings posing an eminent threat to civilian safety of residents day in, day out.

Additional provisional extrajudicial lockdowns paralysed population movements and access to basic services, which many of the demonstrating chanted slogans asking the international community to intervene.

Despite, domestic political turmoil compounded with the tribal hostilities rising high, Muse Bihi’s administration pressed too hard that neither retreat nor resolution is nothing more or less than a political suicide. His immediate options is if he can square a deal with Gaas, who’s also under intense pressure by lawmakers and politicians of Puntland to preserve and protect the constitution.

Provocative, controversial and somewhat ill-advised rhetoric speeches by Bihi and his so called multiparty clansmen continues to trigger civil unrest and public resentment not only in Sool but in many parts of Somaliland including the ongoing clan confrontation in El-Afweyne district of Sanaag, which many accused of him fueling the fighting.

Ayan Osman