location: Burco
notes: More than a hundred people, mostly youths and women, staged a violent demonstration in central Burao in the morning of 23/12 in protest against the transfer of the divisional police commander. The demonstrators burned tires in the middle of the roads and marched to the governors office. Police fired in the air to disperse the protestors. One person was reportedly killed and twenty others - including a police officer - were injured during the demonstration. This was the second day of protests. Local authorities implemented a curfew to counter the protests.
target_text: location: Burco, fatalities: 1