By Amina Hussein
AminaHussein87@outlook.com
Background
There have been fierce and heated debates about the factors that led to Somaliland to invade Sool in December 2022, its imperative to distinguish between the deep, longstanding, and immediate causes that has let to this invasion and the war escalating in such short period of time. Though, each factor can matter in their own ways this war has since not only killed thousands of civilians, and displaced over 200,000 people, destructions of Las Anod’s key infostructure such as hospitals, schools and other key public services. But It has undermined the relative stability and the slow recovery of civil war that these regions were emerging from the last 30 years.
Background
There have been fierce and heated debates about the factors that led to Somaliland to invade Sool in December 2022, its imperative to distinguish between the deep, longstanding, and immediate causes that has let to this invasion and the war escalating in such short period of time. Though, each factor can matter in their own ways this war has since not only killed thousands of civilians, and displaced over 200,000 people, destructions of Las Anod’s key infostructure such as hospitals, schools and other key public services. But It has undermined the relative stability and the slow recovery of civil war that these regions were emerging from the last 30 years.
