US-trained Somali troops armed with American weapons land in Las Anod as Mogadishu wages proxy war to derail Somaliland recognition
Somalia’s PM launches invasion of Somaliland’s Las Anod using US-funded forces, prompting Hargeisa to declare a national emergency as regional war looms.
Why now? Because Somalia is desperate—and Somaliland is winning.
As international recognition inches closer for Somaliland, Mogadishu is playing its final, dangerous card: war. On April 12, 2025, Somalia’s Prime Minister—infamous for praising Hamas and spreading antisemitic slurs—landed in occupied Las Anod, flanked by units armed and trained by the United States. This is not a diplomatic tour. It’s a calculated escalation.
A WARYATV investigation reveals that weapons supplied by the US to fight Al-Shabaab have been diverted to the front lines in Somaliland. The same US-made rifles and vehicles once hailed as tools of counterterrorism are now in the hands of proxy militias destabilizing Las Anod, a town Somalia occupies unlawfully in clear violation of Somaliland’s sovereignty.
This conflict isn’t just local anymore. Somalia has become a launchpad for China’s first military proxy effort in Africa, and its PM is openly supporting Hamas and pushing anti-Israel narratives—despite Somaliland being a key Israeli and US partner in the Horn. The question now haunts Washington: Are American taxpayers funding terror?
In January 2023, the US delivered $9 million in military equipment to Somalia. In February, 61 tons of arms arrived via USAF transport planes. By 2025, that firepower has found its way to Las Anod, in a blatant betrayal of the mission to defeat Al-Shabaab. Somalia failed to defend its capital from jihadists, so now it exports war to Somaliland.
In response, Somaliland’s government declared the invasion a declaration of war. Its foreign ministry vowed “decisive action” to defend sovereignty. Hargeisa’s patience is gone. The regional balance is collapsing.
Somalia’s aggression isn’t just a provocation—it’s an invitation to regional war, Chinese expansion, and a dangerous rollback of Western credibility in East Africa.
Now is the moment for Washington to choose: Stand with Somaliland and Taiwan, or lose both the Horn and the Indo-Pacific to Beijing’s axis.
Somaliland Threatens Retaliation Over PM’s Las’anod Invasion
