Additionally, fishing fleets from Europe and Asia have reached commercial fishing agreements in the northern Puntland region.

Additionally, the Puntland region under the Farole administration has since sought to refine the province's existing oil deal with Range Resources.

Several of Atom's followers were also reportedly receiving medical attention in the region, after having been wounded in a counter-terrorism raid in the Galgala hills by Puntland security personnel.

Several top commanders in the Al-Shabaab group, including former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane (" Moktar Ali Zubeyr "), are also reported to hail from the Somaliland region, with Godane quoted as saying that Al Shabaab insurgents " should not interfere in Somaliland until Puntland is destabilized first.

A projected 10, 000 soldiers recruited from the northern Puntland region and the central areas of Somalia were to be based in the southern town of Beledweyne, while another 10, 000 soldiers from the Juba and Shabelle regions would be based in Jowhar.

In May 2010, construction also began on a new naval base in the town of Bandar Siyada located 25 km west of Bosaso, the commercial capital of the Puntland region.

On 12 April 2010, the military forces of Somalia's autonomous Puntland region staged a military parade to mark the 50th anniversary of Armed Forces Day.

In July 2007, the China state-owned oil company CNOOC signed an agreement with the Somali government to search for oil in the Mudug region of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland ; a competing oil company estimated the total reserves in Puntland could amount to five to ten billion barrels of oil.

The UAE supports the counter-piracy activities of the Somali authorities, particularly in the autonomous Puntland region.

Located in the autonomous Puntland region, it forms the geographical apex of the Horn of Africa.

Local control of Sanaag is disputed between Somaliland, the autonomous Puntland region, and HBM-SSC ( Hoggaanka Badbaadada iyo Mideynta SSC ), a local unionist group whose goal is the creation of its own regional administration ( Sool, Sanaag and Cayn or SSC ).

Sanaag is a disputed region, claimed as sovereign territory by the two autonomous Somaliland and Puntland macro-regions of Somalia.

The dispute between Somaliland and Puntland stems from 1998, when Puntland formed and declared the region as part of its territory.

Thus, both the police and army of Puntland were already established in the region based on the desires of the local population for their security and the territorial integrity of Somalia.

According to the Puntland administration, the Sanaag region consists of 10 districts with Badhan being the Capital of the region.

The region is disputed between Somaliland, the autonomous Puntland, and HBM-SSC ( Hoggaanka Badbaadada iyo Mideynta SSC ), a local unionist group whose goal is the creation of its own regional administration ( Sool, Sanaag and Cayn or SSC ).

The government of the autonomous Puntland macro-region in northeastern Somalia claims the southeastern Togdheer region as its territory, and calls this area, centered around the town of Buuhoodle, the Ayn region of Puntland.

Puntland (, ), officially the Puntland State of Somalia (), is a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province.

In 2012, the Farole administration gave the green light to the first official oil exploration project in Puntland and Somalia at large.

The Puntland Maritime Police Force is a locally-recruited, professional maritime security force that is primarily aimed at fighting piracy off of the coast of Somalia, safeguarding the nation's marine resources, and providing logistics support to humanitarian efforts.

Puntland is bordered by Somaliland to its west, the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, the central Galmudug region of Somalia in the south, and Ethiopia in the southwest.

Unlike neighbouring Somaliland, Puntland, as with all other regions in the country, does not seek outright independence from Somalia.

Much of the northern sultanates ' former domain is today coextensive with the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia.

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 deliver services to the population, offer security, facilitate trade, and interact with both domestic and international partners.

As stipulated in Article 1 of the Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic, Puntland is a part of the Federal State of Somalia.

After having reportedly turned down requests from his fellow countrymen to run for office in the past, and with the assurance of support from various political factions, Farole returned to Somalia in 2008 to present himself as a candidate in the Puntland region's 2008 – 2009 presidential elections.

Despite weeks of political tension prior to the vote, the election itself was also reportedly peaceful, prompting one U. S .- based observer to suggest that the " success of the Puntland elections can begin to provide a model for the whole of Somalia.

On a de facto basis, northern Somalia is divided among the autonomous states of Puntland and Somaliland.

In central Somalia, Galmudug is another regional administration that emerged just south of Puntland.

* Seizing of 6 Somali pirates and recovery of part of the ransom after making sure " Le Ponant " luxury yacht hostages were freed in the coast of Puntland in Somalia on the Gulf of Aden.

Local control is disputed between Somaliland, a self-declared independent republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia, the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, and HBM-SSC ( Hoggaanka Badbaadada iyo Mideynta SSC ), a local unionist group whose goal is the creation of its own regional administration ( Sool, Sanaag and Cayn or SSC ).

Some modern havens include Eyl, in the Puntland region of northern Somalia, and Harardhere ( Xarard-heere ), in the Mudug province of Somalia.

Nugaal is centered on Garowe, the capital of the autonomous Puntland macro-region.

Due to a lack of funding and human resources, an arms embargo that made it difficult to re-establish a national security force, and general indifference on the part of the international community, President Yusuf found himself obliged to deploy thousands of troops from Puntland to Mogadishu to sustain the battle against insurgent elements in the southern part of the country.

Due to a lack of funding and human resources, an arms embargo that made it difficult to re-establish a national security force, and general indifference on the part of the international community, President Yusuf found himself obliged to deploy thousands of troops from Puntland to Mogadishu to sustain the battle against insurgent elements in the southern part of the country.

Garowe Online reported in October that Mohamed Said Atom, an arms-smuggler believed to be allied with Al-Shabaab and who is on U. S. and U. N. security watch-lists, was hiding out in Somaliland after being pursued by the neighboring Puntland region's authorities for his role in targeted assassination attempts against Puntland officials as well as bomb plots.

In December 1999, acting as the Interior Minister of the autonomous northeastern Puntland region and serving under then-President of Puntland, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Farah ordered the eviction of three NGO workers, citing " unsatisfactory services " as reasons for their dismissal: Eddie Johns of United Nations Development Programme UNDP ) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Remmelt Hummeyn of UNDP and Said Al-Naimari of UNICEF.

Situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden, it is the commercial capital of the Bari region ( gobolka ) in the autonomous Puntland state.

The Puntland and Galmudug administrations subsequently signed an accord in Garowe in February 2011, officially agreeing to cooperate on security, economic and social matters so as to strengthen inter-regional relations.

It sits at 11 ° 16 ′ 32 ″ N 49 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E on the outer edge of the city of Bosaso, the commercial capital of the northeastern Puntland macro-region.

Maakhir is the traditional territory of the Warsangali, a member ( along with the Majeerteen, Dhulbahante and Dashiishe ) of the Harti confederation of Darod clans whom in 1998 created the macro region of Puntland in a grand meeting in Garowe.

Garowe (, ) is the administrative capital of the Puntland region in northeastern Somalia.

Garowe is the third largest city in Puntland after Bosaso and Galkacyo.