Laascaanood (PP Information Desk) — Stories point out {that a} employees member of the Ethiopian Consulate in Garowe, Farah Aidid Jama, was murdered in Laascaanood, his hometown. His physique was discovered on the outskirts of Laascaanood. Though Sool, Sanaag, Cayn and Khaatumo (SSCK) administration has not formally briefed the media on Jama’s demise, the social media is rife with disinformation geared toward tarnishing the picture of the brand new administration.
Somali secessionists’ social media trolls have resorted to the textbook follow of disinformation, courting again to 1995, when the late Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, Somaliland administration president, instructed the BBC World Service that terrorists have been primarily based in Laascaanood, to which the previous Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, responded: “We’re aware of the intricacies of Somali politics.”
In 2023, the secessionist administration of Somaliland, at conflict with SSCK, misleadingly claimed that it serves as a buffer zone for Ethiopia.
A senior safety officer of the SSCK administration mentioned that “some political enemies of the SSCK administration are spreading lies just like these unfold by the previous Somaliland administration president, Muse Bihi Abdi, who claimed that Al-Shabaab terrorists have been primarily based in Laascaanood.”
SSCK territories border the Somali area of Ethiopia, whose administration efficiently mediated between two Dhulbahante subclans practically seven years in the past. “The SSCK is part of the Federal Republic of Somalia. We are going to search experience to conduct a radical investigation into the homicide of Jama if that want arises,” mentioned an official of the Sool regional administration.
Final week, the Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre, and his council of ministers paid a go to to Laascaanood, the place he declared Sool, Sanaag, Cayn and Khaatumo administration to be a federal member state.
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