Galmudug administration call on residents to end revenge killings

The administration Galmudug state has made a peace appeal to the feuding clans in Galgaduug region.

Galmudug vice president, Mohamed Hashi Abdi said that recurrent clan clashes and the killings innocent civilians for revenge are miserable situation to the administration.

“We are unhappy with what is going on in Galgaduud region. We call upon those involving to stop. People should live peace and harmony in that region” he said.

Tensions between two clans in Galgaduud region have risen in recent days after killing of several people for revenge.

On 7th this month gunman shot and killed one person in a tea shop in Dhusa-mareeb town in what seemed to be revenge.

A resident in the town who declined to give his name for fear of reprisals said that the killing of the man was revenge for the killing of another man in the outskirt of the town.

Arguments over land use, boreholes and pasture have perennially contributed to fighting among Somali clans who are largely pastoralists and this have many times affected the traders, traditional elders, and other famous people who are hunted for revenge.