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 ...

Gulper shark liver oil is at the centre of an emerging illegal enterprise in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

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

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 fighting between Somaliland and Puntland erupted outside the village of Tukaraq. It lies between the main towns of Las Anod in Somaliland – a breakaway Somali state and self-declared ...

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 ...