Eleven die in interclan clashes in the northwest

At least 11 people were killed and 10 wounded in fighting that broke out on Saturday between rival subclans in a village in western Somaliland, a self-declared republic in northwestern Somalia. Police said clashes between two factions of the Dulbahante clan in Angloo village, Buhoodhle District, continued on Sunday. Militiamen of the Reer Haagay subclan took up arms against their Reer Hagar rivals because of a controversy over the death of a man eight days earlier. The Reer Haagay maintained that members of the Reer Hagar had caused the man’s death through witchcraft. Abdikarim Ismail Dorre, the district police chief, said a woman and her year-old baby were among those killed in the crossfire. Some of the wounded were treated at a medical clinic in Buhoodhle, and others were taken to hospitals in the towns of Burao and Galkayo in the neighbouring self-declared, semiautonomous region of Puntland. There was no fighting on Monday, but tension between the rivals remained high. Elders were speaking with clan members in a bid to resolve matters. Mohammed Adan Qaybe, the former speaker of the Somaliland parliament who hails from Buhoodhle, appealed to the two groups to sort out their differences through dialogue. The fighting in Buhoodhle is not related to the ongoing interclan violence in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.