What’s driving conflict in the disputed Somali city of Las Anod?

Muse Bihi Abdi, president of Somaliland, speaks during a news conference in his office in Hargeysa, in northern Somalia's semi-autonomous Somaliland region, October 10, 2018 [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]

Since February 6, there has been heavy fighting in the northern Somali city of Las Anod (Laascaanood) between troops of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland and local militia from the Dhulbahante clan in northern Somalia.

So far, at least 82 people have died and 400 have been wounded.