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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Paul Stremple

Healthcare hits new lows in Somaliland as conflict continues

Sunlight shines through holes blown into the Las Anod General Hospital's destroyed blood bank, where refrigerators lie empty [Paul Stremple/Al Jazeera]

Las Anod, Somaliland – Eight months into a conflict between armed forces of the breakaway state of Somaliland and local Dhulbahante militias in Las Anod, Somalia, hospitals in the embattled city are desperately working to maintain lifesaving supplies.

Although the conflict has been effectively reduced to a deadlock, with neither the Somaliland forces nor the Dhulbahante militias able to decisively shift the balance of the fighting, the Somaliland army has continued to indiscriminately target civilian areas of Las Anod with mortars and artillery.

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