as well as in the shooting of protesters in Las Anod at the end of 2022. Much like in Las Anod, Muse Bixi has branded these protesters in Hargeisa as terrorists too. The net result is that politics has become far more of a zero-sum game. Commentators have been correct to observe that
The Dhulbahante are a case in point. The idea of a counter-administration has been around for a long while, and the Dhulbahante effectively governed themselves for much of the 1990s and early 2000s . This was formalised with the establishment of the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn administration in 2009, followed by the short-lived Khaatumo administration in 2015. In recent years, support for a counter-administration has waxed and waned.
. In the last few years the city has enjoyed a spurt of economic growth, driven in large part by increasing diaspora investment. Important infrastructure such as the water supply, a number of hospitals, the electric company, and even roads leading to and from Las Anod have been spearheaded by the local Dhulbahante community and their relatives in the diaspora.This includes a large real estate project modelled on US-style gated communities, as well as several new high-end hotels.
You can’t term Somaliland a de facto state as it never had control over the SSC regions which form half of the territory of historical British Somaliland. Obviously, you want to divide Somali people as you try very hard to create a fictional clan enclave in northern Somalia.