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An American raid on Friday saw U.S. troops capture Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the chief money man for ISIS in Somalia since 2019.
A Turkish vessel carrying military supplies for Somalia's armed forces has been forced to divert to Djibouti after ...
Mohamed Abdirahman Dhabancad, Puntland's former finance minister, explained to us: "Our intel people found there has been ...
Coastal communities in Somalia's Bari region are facing mounting tensions after the Puntland Minister of Fisheries, Abdirisaaq Cabdullaahi Xagaa, authorized the entry of foreign trawlers into local ...
Armed factions in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland agreed a ceasefire on Wednesday, a local leader said, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 injured in clashes over ...
Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Friday it had sent forces to the neighbouring region of Galmudug to help the military there push al Shabaab Islamist militants out of a ...
Somaliland and Puntland have had a long-running dispute over the provinces of Sool and Sanaag, which run from the Gulf of Aden all the way to the eastern borders of Ethiopia.
Once people in Puntland agree to something, he said, there is usually a strong commitment to deliver. “In a sense, it’s taking us back to what we saw many years ago in terms of a handshake and ...
The verdict in a gang-rape case of two teenage girls in Puntland, Somalia has sent ripples through the semi-autonomous East African state. Five boys were arrested after footage of the event was ...
Puntland, Somalia – Ahmed Osman, 34, gathered his tiny son into his arms and walked for three hours to reach the nearest medical centre in Dhudo village in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of ...
On Puntland’s western border is the disputed Sool and Sanaag region. Both Puntland and Somaliland – a breakaway region in northwestern Somalia – claim this patch of land.