While Somalia's formal judicial system was largely destroyed after the fall of the Siad Barre regime, it was later gradually rebuilt and administered under different regional governments, such as the autonomous Puntland and Somaliland macro-regions.

Most of the damage was in the coastal region of the semi-autonomous Puntland area, particularly the region between Hafun in the Bari region and Garacad in the Mudug region.

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 addition, Farole has since revisited Puntland's oil deal with Range Resources, delivering a policy update in which he stated, among other things, that while he acknowledges the contracts that had already been signed under a great deal of controversy, it is important to " make sure that they are benefiting the people and are within the laws of Puntland.

The city is divided into two zones, where the main northern portion forms part of Puntland state, while its southern tip is governed by the Galmudug administration.

A divided city, it is sectioned along a north / south axis, with the main northern portion forming a part of the autonomous Puntland state, while the southern tip is governed by the Galmudug administration.

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

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.

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.

The Maakhirians were one of the principal actors in Puntland politics.

* 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.

" These aims were sidelined after the decisive defeat of the ICU in the Battle of Baidoa and the subsequent actions of the war in Somalia by the allied forces of the Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ), the autonomous governing zones of Puntland, Southwestern Somalia, Jubaland, and Galmudug and their military backer, Ethiopia.

With its power base mainly in the Majeerteen clan, SSDF representatives, along with local elders, intellectuals and businesspeople, were instrumental in the establishment in 1998 of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia.

* Puntland, a region in north-eastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province.

On October 10, 2004, in a session held by the Transitional Federal Parliament ( TFP ), former Puntland President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as President of the succeeding Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ), an interim federal administrative body that he had helped establish earlier in the year.

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.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

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

Oil blocks in Puntland.

An oil group listed in Sydney, Range Resources, anticipates that the Puntland province in the north has the potential to produce to of oil.

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

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

A few autonomous regions, including the Somaliland, Puntland and Galmudug administrations, emerged in the north in the ensuing process of decentralization.

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.

According to Puntland government documents, the Somaliland region's Riyale government in 2006 both financed and offered military assistance to Atom's men as part of a campaign to destabilize the autonomous territory via proxy agents and to distract attention away from the Somaliland government's own attempts at occupying the disputed Sool province.

The Puntland Intelligence Agency ( PIA ), a covert organization supported and trained by U. S. counter-terrorism agencies based in Djibouti, also indicated that over 70 salaried Somaliland soldiers had fought alongside Atom's militiamen during the Galgala operation, including one known Somaliland intelligence official who died in the ensuing battle.

Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks.

Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

The experiences of yielding to Christ in being buried with him in the waters of baptism and rising to a new life, have profound meaning for the church.

Campbell had to move the CN7 off the lake in the middle of the night to save the car from being submerged by the rising flood waters.

Oannes is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the daytime and furnishing mankind instruction in writing, the arts and the various sciences.

From 1960 to 1961, ' Operation Noah ' captured and removed around 6, 000 large animals and numerous small ones threatened by the lake's rising waters.

In a 1982 series of articles for New Scientist, Dr Maurice Burton proposed that sightings of Nessie and similar creatures could actually be fermenting logs of Scots pine rising to the surface of the loch's cold waters.

Elizabeth Aggasiz wrote, at the Strait: '… the Hassler pursued her course, past a seemingly endless panorama of mountains and forests rising into the pale regions of snow and ice, where lay glaciers in which every rift and crevasse, as well as the many cascades flowing down to join the waters beneath, could be counted as she steamed by them ....

In this he is successful, both holding the pass and managing to kill one of The Deceiver's shades, Scaripant, who was trapped by the rising waters.

The plains of Lombardy, formed from alluvial deposits, can be divided into the Alta – an upper, permeable ground zone in the north and a lower zone characterized – the Bassa – by the so-called line of fontanili ( the spring waters rising on impermeable ground ).

Lake Zurich is formed by the river Linth, which, rising in the glaciers of the Tödi Range in Glarus, which was diverted by the Escher canal ( completed in 1811 ) into the Lake Walen, there by means of the Linth canal ( completed in 1816 ), its waters are carried to the east end of the Lake of Zurich.

In the Dumbarton Oaks mosaic, the bust of Tethys — surrounded by fishes — is rising, bare-shouldered from the waters.

In the poem, a deceased völva foretells that the ship will arrive with rising waters, carrying Hrym and Loki and with them a horde of others:

Members of the Grand Forks Air Force Base were called into action, first to help protect the town from the rising waters and later to house the victims of the disaster.

In 1960, Rocky Reach Dam was constructed downriver from Entiat, much of the town had to be relocated to higher ground due to the rising waters behind the dam.

The site where these petroglyphs were found was inundated by the rising waters behind Wanapum Dam in the 1960s.

It was used for 200 years afterward, until rising waters drove people even further east.

* King of Kings ( also known as " Touchdown Jesus " or " Big Butter Jesus " or the new name " Terminator Jesus "), a 62-foot-tall sculpture of Jesus, appears to be rising from the waters behind the amphitheater at Monroe's Solid Rock Church.

It was entirely submerged by rising lake waters for several years, but has since re-emerged.

The normally blue waters of the lake turned a deep red after the outgassing, due to iron-rich water from the deep rising to the surface and being oxidised by the air.

" It is believed that Negros was once part of a greater mass of land, but was cut off either by what geologists call continental drift or by rising waters during the Ice age.

Located on the southeastern shore of Lake Wakatipu, the range lives up to its name by rising sharply to create an impressive backdrop for the waters.

Negros Island, the third largest island in the Philippines, is believed to have once been part of the island of Mindanao, but was cut off — either by continental drift or the rising waters at the end of the ice age.

On 16 June 2006, the French prime minister and regional authorities announced a € 164 million project ( Projet Mont-Saint-Michel ) to build a hydraulic dam using the waters of the river Couesnon and of tides to help remove the accumulated silt deposited by the rising tides, and to make Mont-Saint-Michel an island again.