Garowe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/garowe/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 24 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Garowe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/garowe/ 32 32 Somaliland and Puntland resume fighting https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/somaliland-and-puntland-resume-fighting/ Thu, 24 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/somaliland-and-puntland-resume-fighting/ Barely had a killer cyclone passed over the Horn of Africa and two breakaway states in the troubled region are back at each other’s throats. There’s no clarity about casualties in the resumption of fighting between Somaliland and Puntland. Fighting between these two Horn-of- Africa states was halted by cyclone Sagar that killed dozens  and […]

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]]> Barely had a killer cyclone passed over the Horn of Africa and two breakaway states in the troubled region are back at each other’s throats.

There’s no clarity about casualties in the resumption of fighting between Somaliland and Puntland.

Fighting between these two Horn-of- Africa states was halted by cyclone Sagar that killed dozens  and displaced thousands in Somaliland, Puntland and Djibouti this week.

Yesterday Somaliland and Puntland troops resumed their exchange of artillery and heavy weapons around the town of Tukarak, 80 kms away from the Puntland capital Garowe.

Tukarak, in the disputed Sool region, fell to Somaliland forces last January.

Both sides accuse the other of  taking up weapons after the deadliest  storm  in decades.

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]]> Dozens dies in Horn of Africa fighting https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/dozens-dies-in-horn-of-africa-fighting/ Thu, 17 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/dozens-dies-in-horn-of-africa-fighting/ Dozens have died in fighting this week between troops of  breakaway Somaliland and semi-autonomous Puntland in the Horn of Africa. Somaliland President Mohammed Abdullahi has called on elders and civil society from both sides to mediate. Things are quieter today as both sides shelter from the rain and bury their dead. Somaliland and Puntland have […]

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]]> Dozens have died in fighting this week between troops of  breakaway Somaliland and semi-autonomous Puntland in the Horn of Africa.

Somaliland President Mohammed Abdullahi has called on elders and civil society from both sides to mediate.

Things are quieter today as both sides shelter from the rain and bury their dead.

Somaliland and Puntland have been at odds for  decade over the border region of Sool .

Even the inhabitants in the area are divided about where their allegiance lies.

Last week Somaliland troops took the village of Tuka Raq near the Puntland capital Garowe.

In the ensuing fighting three Somaliland soldiers have died and Puntland report losing 18.

More than five dozen have been wounded on both sides

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