Mohamed Abdirahman Dhabancad, Puntland's former finance minister, explained to us: "Our intel people found there has been ...

The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...

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 ...

A Turkish vessel carrying military supplies for Somalia's armed forces has been forced to divert to Djibouti after ...

An American raid on Friday saw U.S. troops capture Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the chief money man for ISIS in Somalia since 2019.

Unlike in Puntland, the jihadists in the area are growing stronger. Al-Shabab is said to have been receiving arms and training from the Houthis, the Iranian-backed militia in Yemen that has been ...

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.

That is, when citizens of Puntland are ready to vote, IDs will make it easy for election judges to manage voters. “It will help us know the population of the residents,” Garaad said.

The group has been circumscribed to rural parts of Puntland, a region in northeastern Somalia that has a largely autonomous state government. African Union peacekeepers, of which there are 22,000 ...

Unlike Somaliland, though, Puntland still considers itself a part of the federal state of Somalia. Ali, 48, hails from Puntland and was Somalia’s premier from June 2011 to October 2012.

Africa Oil Corp. (AOI.V) today provided an update on the drilling program in Puntland, Somalia. The Shabeel well has reached a total depth of 3,470 meters and has encountered metamorphic basement ...