At the time, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, who later served as Puntland President (2014–2019), was the Prime Minister of Somalia, while Abdirahman Farole was the President of Puntland under whose leadership ...

The Somali state of Puntland is witnessing an escalation of security challenges with an increase in military confrontations against the Islamic State organization, which entered ...

The Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) was initially run by a UAE-based company, in violation of a UN arms embargo, and reported directly to the Puntland president, bypassing the sovereignty of ...

The quiet financier: Islamic State's elusive strongman Paris (AFP) – His orange henna-dyed beard and striking eyewear would make him easy to pick out in a crowd, but Abdul Qadir Mumin has ...

This week, it said 12 ISIS militants using booby-trapped vehicles attacked a military base on Dec 31 in Somalia’s north-eastern region of Puntland, killing around 22 soldiers and wounding dozens ...

U.S. immigration authorities in 2024 removed the largest number of people in the country illegally in a decade, according to a new report.

A Somali pirate and former Minnesota resident received a 30-year prison sentence related to the kidnapping of a U.S. journalist.

Puntland is a state in northeastern the Federal Republic of Somalia, and occupies one-third of the country, is a home to almost four million people. Since its founding in 1998, there has been four ...

Pirates had been dormant for nearly a decade 2008-2014 attacks cost the global economy billions of dollars Recent pirate raids are increasing costs for shippers Pirates take advantage of security ...

Said Abdullahi Deni was on Monday re-elected president of the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland, which has tense relations with the central government in Mogadishu.

Puntland claimed autonomy in 1998, bolstered by natural resources including its Bosasso port. An influential businessman in import-export and real estate, Deni was the federal minister of planning and ...