MSF ends operations and withdraws from Laascaanood as a result of intense shelling by Somaliland

The international French-based aid organization, Doctors Without Borders better known as MSF, has ceased operating in the city of Laascaanood in the Sool region of Somalia.

“Recurrent attacks on medical facilities and the level of extreme violence in Las Anod have reached the threshold where MSF is no longer able to provide medical care,” read a statement released by MSF in reference to the indiscriminate shelling perpetrated by Somaliland troops.

“In the latest incident on 8 July, Las Anod General hospital was hit during the fighting, causing injuries among medical staff and caretakers”, the MSF statement went on to say.

The statement from MSF comes three months after Amnesty International released a similar statement on the situation in Laascaanood, in which they accused Somaliland of committing war crimes and atrocities in the city of Laascaanood.

Laascaanood has been the victim of indiscriminate shelling over the past few months which has killed hundreds and displaced over 200,000 with international actors calling for a cease to hostilities, which has fallen on death ears, as the Bihi regime continues to shell the city at will.

Daljir Media Service Desk