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Puntland (Somali: Puntland, Arabic: أرض البنط, Italian: Terra di Punt or Paese di Punt), officially the Puntland State of Somalia (Somali: Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, Arabic: ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is an autonomous territory formed in 1998 that became a federal member state. Puntland is located ...
The Islamic State's insurgency in Puntland started on 22 October 2015 after former al-Shabaab jihadist Abdul Qadir Mumin pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, creating the "Islamic State in Somalia" (Abnaa ul-Calipha) and settling in the Galgala region, in Puntland.
Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, a homegrown constitutional conference was held in Garowe in 1998 over a period of three months. Attended by the area's political elite, traditional elders (Issims), members of the business community, intellectuals and other civil society representatives, the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia was subsequently officially established so as to ...
Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's federal system and will govern itself independently until constitutional amendments passed by the ...
21 December – Puntland state of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new banknotes currency in 2025. The state had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. [67]
Puntland (Somali: Taariikhda Buntilaan), (Arabic: تاريخ أرض البنط), (Spanish: Historia de Puntlandia), officially the Puntland State of Somalia (Somali: Dowladda Buntilaan ee Soomaaliya), Arabic: ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia.
After Puntland was establish in 1998, Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected the regions first president, leading a regional transitional government set for two years. In 2000, the Transitional National Government (TNG) of Somalia was formed, which Yusuf's administration opposed the TNG out of concern that a new central state would favor the ...
The inaccurate posts claim the new flag closely resembled that of Puntland state, a region of northeastern Somalia that was declared autonomous in 1998. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali ...