location: Saylac
notes: Hundreds of people staged a demonstration in Saylac (Zeila) and surrounded the local government office on 09/01. The demonstrators were protesting against the council election and the planned nomination of the new mayor. Police fired in the air to disperse the protestors, resulting in one of the demonstrators being shot and killed. Following the shooting the Djibouti government closed its border with the Somaliland.
target_text: location: Saylac, fatalities: 1