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Saturday December 23, 2023
Las Anod (HOL) – The Supreme Council of SSC-Khaatumo announced on Saturday that the newly formed SSC-Khaatumo administration would no longer be part of the semi-autonomous northern Somali state of Puntland.
The traditional Council stated that no candidate from SSC-Khatumo could run for the vice president of Puntland and called on the two members from SSC-Khatumo, who are on the committee for the resolution of disputes and approval of the Puntland parliament, to resign.
The Council made this decision during a meeting held in Las Anod, the administrative capital of (Sool, Sanag, and Ain), collectively known as SSC-Khaatumo.
The Council refused to select lawmakers to send to the upcoming regional parliament and warned against recruiting members of the Dhulbahante community from the towns. They emphasized that all the elders who used to sign and approve lawmakers to the Puntland parliament have unanimously decided not to send any MP to Puntland.
The supreme traditional clan chief of Sool, Sanaag, and Ain regions, Garad Jama Garad Ali, emphasized the unity and solidarity of the people of SSC-Khatumo. He asserted that his people aspire to have an administration separate from Somaliland and Puntland.
In February of this year, traditional elders and leaders from the Sool, Sanag, and Ain regions announced in Las Anod that the three regions would not be part of Somaliland. They decided that the SSC-Khatumo territories are part of the federal republic of Somalia, standing for the unity and integrity of the Somali Federal Republic.
Since then, heavy fighting between the Somaliland army and SSC-Khatumo local forces broke out in Las Anod, geographically situated between Somaliland and Puntland. This conflict resulted in hundreds of deaths, over three thousand injuries, and the displacement of more than half a million people.
In the middle of this year, SCC-Khatumo forces expelled the Somaliland army from the SSC-Khatumo areas following eight months of fighting between the two sides. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi, speaking the day after the SCC forces took control of Somaliland’s main base, Gojacade, outside Las Anod, acknowledged that his troops had suffered a significant setback during the conflict in the vicinity of Las Anod town.
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